In final funeral for balcony victims, dad reads son's postcard
In final funeral for balcony victims, dad reads son's postcard
In a tearful touch of poignancy on top of tragedy at the final funeral Thursday for the six Irish students killed in a Berkeley balcony collapse, the young man’s father shared a final postcard the family got from his son, according to Irish media.
Miller’s father, Ken, was quoted as saying at the funeral in Shankill, County Dublin, that he remembered the effervescent young man’s “stupid hats, his giraffe onesie, his low-rider trike, the subtle signs posted on his bedroom door and his love of all things Harry Potter; his ability to take advice, make it his own, and excel; his pouting selfies; the miracle of him not getting repetitive thumb strain from over-use of his mobile phone; and the cards he made for so any people.”
On Wednesday, one of the survivors of the incident said in a frank and upbeat Facebook post she may never walk again.
The fall from the balcony left me with 2 collapsed lungs, a broken shoulder, a broken knee, 5 broken ribs and a broken spinal cord ...
The survivors of the tragedy have been recovering in Bay Area medical facilities from a variety of injuries, some more serious than others, said Philip Grant, Ireland’s consul general in San Francisco.