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Visitors thank community for help during visit

I am sorry it has taken me this long to get a thank you in the mail to you. My glasses were broken in the accident, and I can’t see well enough without them to do very much writing.

We wanted to thank everyone who helped us after we had an automobile accident near your town on Oct. 23. Sometimes we never know how much we need the help of others until something bad happens. We were badly bruised but alive! But our dog, Mickey, was thrown from the car and ran away. Almost two days of hunting and he was found.

Thank you to the state policeman who was the first to arrive, the ambulance crew, your health care center, the desk clerks at Motel 6 — both motels because we got many calls at each one as we did not know which one we were at. Michael Vasquez, who helped with flyers, Melvin Berry at McDonalds, who first spotted Mickey, Barbara Littles and Mary Valdez at Fairfield Inn who called the police and Officer Phil Langston who helped catch him. And a special thank you to Trevor Harrison who worked so hard trying to find our dog for us.

The people of Williams are extra special; you live in a beautiful little town.

Raymond, Betty and Mickey Smith

Espanola, New Mexico

Soldier’s poem speaks about war

This poem was sent to me by my brother, Richard Lugo, in the late 1960s while he was serving in Vietnam. I have recently received many requests for this poem titled A Soldier’s Prayer:

“Look, God, I have never spoken to You;

But now I want to say how do you do.

You see, God, they told me You didn’t exist;

And like a fool I believed all of this.

Last night from a shell hole I saw your sky;

I figured right then they had told me a lie.

Had I taken time to see things You made;

I’d have known they weren’t calling a spade a spade.

I wonder, God, if You’d shake my hand;

Somehow I feel that You will understand;

Funny I had to come to this hellish place,

Before I had time to see your face.

Well I guess there isn’t much more to say;

But I’m sure glad, God, I met You today.

I guess the “zero hour” will soon be here;

But I’m not afraid since I know You’re near.

The signal! Well, God, I’ll have to go.

I like You lots,

This I want You to know.

Look now, this will be a horrible fight;

Who knows, I may come to Your house tonight.

Though I wasn’t friendly to You before,

I wonder, God, If You’d wait at Your door.

Look, I’m crying! Me! Shedding tears!

I wish I’d known You these many years.

Well, I have to go now, God, goodbye!

Strange since I met You

I’m not afraid to die.”

Sally Lugo Aguilar

Williams


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