Three events have anniversaries on this day. Two of them have had a great impact on my life, and one had a great impact on the lives of many others, of which I was not one.
On this day in 1988, at 10:55 p.m., just outside Carrollton (KY), a bus’s headlights illuminated an oncoming black pickup — a drunken driver going the wrong way on the interstate. It smashed into the bus, puncturing the fuel tank and crushing its main door. 27 people died, most of them either burned to death, or from smoke inhalation.
On this day in 1994, I moved from Western New York to Louisville, Kentucky. My life was changed forever by the move from the rural life I had always known, to living in the 16th largest city in the US (2007).
And finally, on this day in 2008, my mom, Sarah Louise Fulford – Weise – Walters, and my dad, Barry Arthur “Red” Walters were buried together in a ceremony in Mayville, New York. Dad passed away in December 1996, and mom in April 2008.
