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I’ll long remember the class of 2008, not because I have a son who is graduating with them, but because I won’t. My son, Joseph, drowned on Memorial Day 2005 shortly before the end of his freshman year at Tehachapi High School.  Since his death three years ago, this graduating senior class has kept his memory alive. They have mentioned him in their assemblies, dedicated soccer games to him, retired his soccer shirt #13, named a cross country invitational run after him, offered a scholarship in is name, planted a tree a Railroad park and awarded him plaques in swimming and soccer, posthumously. On May 27, the anniversary of his death, I was invited to a memorial at the cemetery where Joseph is laid to rest. (His mother was in Idaho with our daughter who soon will deliver a baby.) Approximately 60 students from the graduating class gathered from 12:15 to 1:15 and even later to remember Joseph.  They brought flowers for the grave and white balloons upon which...
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