"Godzilla" graduated TODAY!!!!

[Ed Harrow]

http://home.comcast.net/~ed.harrow/godzilla.jpg

"Godzilla" was our first "temp". We're confident he is going to be a success story, one of the 2% of foster kids who get a college degree.

[ 06-03-2005, 06:27 PM: Message edited by: Ed Harrow ]

[Wayne Jeffers]

Well done, Ed & Sheryl!

Well done, "Godzilla!"

:cool:

Wayne

[paladin]

ABSOLUTELY NEAT!

[Frank Wentzel]

Congratulations Ed! :D :D :D

/// Frank ///

[ 05-21-2005, 11:27 PM: Message edited by: Frank Wentzel ]

[Ed Harrow]

The real congrats are due "Godzilla" and his Mom. Lots of struggle, oceans to cross, but they did it; we were merely the tugboat.

[Mrleft8]

Looks awful young to be gradumacating, but then again I'm getting older. Seems that when I was that age I at least had peach fuzz.... Congratulations "Godzilla"! and "good on you" Ed! Yer a real ripsnorter kinda fella by gawd! I remember when a sheila was trying to pick me up in Kalgoorie....Wait.... I'm not Dingo... Never mind.... :D

[Ed Harrow]

http://home.comcast.net/~ed.harrow/G1.JPG

What a fine specimen, all 6 foot 3 of him! Met his maternal grandparents for the first time. What a wonderful event and wonderful family.

Given my level of paranoia I'm loath to write too much - suffice it to say he's accepted at a well-known school in their pre-law program.

Some of you may remember my old "saying" before they were, I guess, Scotted, "There is the soul of goodness in things evil if one will just distill it out." This is such a perfect example - we became foster parrents in an attempt to find solace, and the reasons Godzilla ended up in foster care I need not go into. But, I guess, like the man says, "All's well that end's well"

A day of high emotion...

[Ken Hutchins]

Congrats to all. smile.gif smile.gif

[htom]

Very well done, all around! smile.gif

[Donn]

:cool: They sure do grow, eh?

[paladin]

Betcha yure proud, aintcha....

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

:D Congrats :cool:

[landlocked sailor]

;) :cool: smile.gif Rick

[Scott Rosen]

Good work and congratulations!

Inspiring.

[Nora Lee]

Congratulations to ALL of YOU!

Nora smile.gif

[Hughman]

Two toots, tug! smile.gif

[BrianR]

You've done much with your life Ed. Godzilla will never forget it. Good on you.

[Ed Harrow]

SWMTMH & I went to his graduation party yesterday. So much I would love to write, but with the world so small these days I'd be terribly remiss for so doing.

Suffice it to say that his Mom is one of 9, and that this event was the fist time in years that the whole (well almost whole) family has been in one place at one time. As one might guess having a child taken by the state would have definitive and long lasting family complications.

Imagine the stories lost, the "two-year-old" stories. Well Mom asked, mostly, I think, so others sitting at our "adult and intimate" table could hear some of those stories. His moniker "Godzilla", and how he became so named, is now a part of family lore. And the funny thing, one party at the table says, in that respect, he hasn't changed too much, LOL. In his graduation talk, he mentioned how we wouldn't let him have dessert until after he had finished dinner. Neither of us remember that; SWMTMH's response was, "Was I really so mean!" What we do remember was his first corn on the cob. We buttered it liberally and salted it conservatively (Thusly appeasing both extremes) and gave it to him. Godzilla proceeded to lick off the salt and butter, and then handed it back to SWMTMH for another application.

I wish I could write more of his (and his Mom's) accomplishments, so that you might better understand the tears that rolled down my cheek at the graduation. (Thankfully nobody asked ;) ). Only weeks before his graduation his biological scum-bag father was arrested. I wish I could tell you about that so you might even better understand this miracle.

Thanks for listening and please excuse my spelling, it's probably not up to my usual standards.

smile.gif

[ 06-05-2005, 10:05 AM: Message edited by: Ed Harrow ]

[Ross M]

:cool: :cool:

[Kermit]

Whatever you fed that kid physically and spiritually must have been the right stuff. A hearty "well done" to all. :D

[Garrett Lowell]

Congratulations to all, and a big thanks to you, Ed. Has Tokyo recovered from Godzilla's ministrations?

[Mike Field]

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You're good people, Ed.

Thanks for sharing this with us.

Mike
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[igatenby]

Well done mate