>>That is a tragic story about your friend. Today they do much more in schools to educate kids about danger of drunk driving, citing stories like what happened to your friend.
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>After the accident, a group of friends and I went to see the bashed in bloody car to try to get some closure. There was a half-gone case of beer sitting in the passenger seat. We all thought it was odd that it was still there, but it turns out that is a tool the police use to get people to associate car accidents like that to drunken driving. It worked. Life lessons that are attempted to be taught in a classroom are not very useful because "it will never happen to them". Life lessons are best taught the hard way.
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I hope that most kids are smart enough to learn the lessons without first-hand experience of losing a friend or getting hurt themselves. There is a great deal much more awareness today than, say, 20 or 30 years ago.
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
