Sad, Part II.......
As I retrieved the newspaper this morning I saw the headline, that a man had been killed yesterday on the railroad tracks downtown. Not a totally unusual occurence in Midland; but as always I wondered, "who cannot see or hear a train coming while crossing the tracks".
Then I read the name of the victim, Martin Chapman, resident of the Salvation Army. I knew Martin. Not well, but I had talked with him enough to know his story along with some of the demons that bedeviled him.
How strange I thought, when coupled with yesterdays post; here is a woman who came from nothing to be a media darling and is now dead and in Midland we have a man who was once somebody, who died on the tracks while a resident of the Salvation Army. Both gone for, most likely, the same reason.
As I retrieved the newspaper this morning I saw the headline, that a man had been killed yesterday on the railroad tracks downtown. Not a totally unusual occurence in Midland; but as always I wondered, "who cannot see or hear a train coming while crossing the tracks".
Then I read the name of the victim, Martin Chapman, resident of the Salvation Army. I knew Martin. Not well, but I had talked with him enough to know his story along with some of the demons that bedeviled him.
How strange I thought, when coupled with yesterdays post; here is a woman who came from nothing to be a media darling and is now dead and in Midland we have a man who was once somebody, who died on the tracks while a resident of the Salvation Army. Both gone for, most likely, the same reason.
