When my husband had the junk yard there was a family of men who worked for him. After he no longer had the yard they worked off and on for some of the other junkyards in the area.
They were all fairly young men with young families. All of them except a cousin who was older with a wife and no children.
I began to manage one yard of three that a friend owned. One of that family worked for me. He was a good worker and I could depend on him.
Our family moved to another state and we lost touch. I did get newspapers from the other state however.
One day I read some upsetting news. It concerned the family who had worked for us.
The young man who had worked for me and the older cousin were working for a yard in a bad area of Detroit.
Someone entered the yard intending to rob it. They shot the young man and killed him. They also shot the older cousin and I do not know what his condition was.
But the tragedy does not stop there. Someone called the other young man. He was the older brother of the young man who died,
He immediately got ready to go to his brother. As he frantically ran out his front door he suffered a heart attack. He died right away.
They left 6 young children to grow up without their fathers.
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