The Story of a Young Man
Jun 5, 2007 In The News
The biggest story in the Rochester-area news this week has been the extraordinary number of motor vehicle fatalities — 13 in 9 days as of June 5. Such a huge loss of life is never good news, but it hits harder when one of the departed is someone who’s literally meant the difference between life and death to a part of your family.
From Bob Lonsberry:
Three high school pals. Two young men, friends from work. A brand-new college graduate, driving her sister back from the movie store. A dad out on his motorcycle. A 64-year-old motorcyclist run over by a teen-ager. Two moms, whose children were about to wed. A husband and father in a wreck with a fish hatchery truck.
And then there was the kid who saved my daughter’s life.
His name was Brendan Barry.
He and a couple of pals were coming back from a party early Sunday morning, on Chili Avenue, when the whole world came loose and the car ended up tumbling into an unrecognizable mass of twisted and shattered metal.
Brendan was 20.
But I knew him when he was 13.
