LA TIMES: CANYON LAKE, Texas — A family tragedy unfolding in a Texas hospital during the fall of 1988 was a private ordeal -- without judges, emergency sessions of Congress or the raging debate outside Terri Schiavo's Florida hospice. The patient then was a 65-year-old drilling contractor, badly injured in a freak accident at his home. Among the family standing vigil at Brooke Army Medical Center was a grieving junior congressman -- U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas....read on
Sorry for your loss Tom. Please give us the same courtesy of doing the same. It's apparent that we all face these same challenges or will face them. (Update) Even Brother Paul has felt similar pain and made the same decision.
By John Amato
— March 25, 2005
