Letters June 7, 2004 Issue

A LETTER TO NICK'S DAD

with contributions from Michael S. Berg

Dear Friend,

I saw you, Michael, on the front page of my Chicago Tribune this morning. How grateful I am that you have a second son to hold you through the tears. I wish you had two sons with you. And I wish especially that you didn't have to bear the spotlight of knowing that the video of Nick's killing was being broadcast round the world.

I don't know why some people go through grief in privacy and others, like your family, are thrust into the public eye. It's enough of a cruelty to deal with your own pain, but I can only imagine what it's like to have to deal with everybody else's.

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