Some people may think 24 years is severe. It's totally preventable. Wright will join other high school students in Washington, D.C., this fall to brainstorm ways to keep teens from drinking and driving. She has definite ideas about repeat drunken drivers. I think that's reasonable.
Nobody's going to want to do it if that happens, so then they'd stop doing it.
Oswego resident Jim Still, a teacher and football and basketball coach at Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville, came close to quitting it all. Every school day he used to have to drive twice past the place where he saw the mangled cars and an ambulance speeding his younger brother, Jeff, to the hospital, back in 1997. Still, on Sundays, when he and his wife and two toddler sons visit his parents in Sugar Grove, his mom and dad hug him - hard and long. It got hard to breathe. Somehow, after a lot of prayers, the sensation of suffocation eased.