Am catching up this morning with reading the digest (about fifteen
or so issues) and a
heart fellt thought came to me about the statue and the Knotts family.
Truley I believe that we should be conscerned about the feelings
of Don's family.
Let me say that it hurts to lose a loved one and when you do,
you go through a period of mourning. Beyond the fame and popularity that we
the fans hold to Don Knotts, for his wonderful
roles on T.V. and the big screen, Don was a real person, with a real life,
and a real family.
Perhaps, that can be better understood if I tell you how it was
for me when I lost my
youngest brother about two years ago;
Ronnie was born four months after my father passed away. The year
was 1954. When mom
brought him home from the hospital and laid him on a bed, I instantly picked
him up and held him.
I looked at him and i said, "you arae so little and you don't even have a
Dad. I said to him, I can't
really be your day, but i will be as much like a day for you as I can be. I
was ten years old and i
certainly lived up to my word. Ronnie acquired hepititus C from a
transfusion in the Gulf war(Desert
Storm) and it eventually took his life.
I loved that little brother so much. When i was notified of the
seriousness of his illness I went home and spent time with him during the
last weeks of his life. Three weeks after my visit,
he passed away. I didn't go back home to attend his funeral, I couldn't bare
to see him in that
state. I dreaded the thought of having to see pictures of him in that state.
He didn't know that
I felt that way but he had a final request. He didn't want any pictures
taken of his funeral, he
wanted to be remembered as he was. Ronnie lives on in my heart. However, I
know that he is
gone and i was in mourning for well over a year.
Perhaps, this will help his fans to be understand to Don's family
and to be sensitive to their
emotions.
Bob Phillips
Glendale, Arizona
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