On March 12, 2021, we described how a Chestertown group decided to honor the murdered Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick. They had learned from a Washington Post article, that he was devoted to rescuing, caring and finding good homes for, abandoned, abused Dachshunds.
He himself had adopted two, one young and healthy and the other old and blind. After work, he went home, put one on a long leash and carried the senior Dox from tree to tree, until an acceptable one was found.
The ten Chestertown residents created a memorial fund and donated it in his name to the American Dachshund Rescue and Adoption organization. Its Board knew about Brian’s attachment to Doxies and was very excited to receive the check. It will be used for the initial medical and other care their rescues receive.
Fast forward to April 14, 2021 when Ingrid Hansen, the owner of Figgs Ordinary and very involved in the memorial fund, found a note taped to her business’s door. It was from Ken Sicknick, Brian’s brother, who had driven hundreds of miles to Chestertown, to thank Ingrid and the others for “remembering his brother in such a thoughtful way.”
Given the depressing, dreariness of the past year and the lingering shock of the 1/06/21 assault on the Capitol, Ken’s effort was a very nice coda to the story. . .
Patty Heaps says
Except it was just this morning the ME came back with the finding that Sicknik died of natural causes. The only person to die as a consequence of a deliberate act of violence was Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed Trump supporter shot by a still unnamed cop and now we know he won’t be charged. The media pushed this story as a savage act by a pro-Trump “mob” because it was all they had – they were frantic to tie his death to a Trump supporter and yet, now… we find out it was a lie. Imagine that!
What is happening in cities across this nation should allow you shock to “linger”. After all, there are the real insurrections that involve destroying Federal buildings – in addition to small business and their owners.
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” – Mark Twain
Melinda Bookwalter says
Oh my, I am sorry you are carrying so much anger.
Patty Heaps says
And why shouldn’t I be angry? As tragic as Sicknick’s death is, it wasn’t caused by a Trump supporter at an “insurrection”. Just this week, NBC removed the picture of the knife the girl in Columbus was getting ready to plunge into someone to give more meat to “police-bad” narrative. The local news reports on an alternate juror in the Chauvin case, letting us know that she thought on “some levels”, Chauvin was guilty – sounds as there may have been reasonable doubt. What they leave out of the report is how this same woman had to go through these protests every night to get home and was worried that a not-guilty verdict could mean these protestors coming to her house. Why this trial wasn’t given another venue is beyond me and why weren’t the jurors sequestered? And the fawning over and propping up of this faux president is laughable. So, yeah, I’ve got some anger. After all, if you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.