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the Romulus Fire Department.
Now a lieutenant, he told the
authors that he remembers the
night like it was yesterday.
“It's still in my head. Every day
when I drive by there and drive
that stretch of road, I see it as if it
was that night. Even though it's so
long ago, it's still in my head. It
was indescribable, like a war, like
a grenade going off, a tornado, a
hurricane,”
He was assigned to Fire Truck
302 that night, his first official
assignment from the Romulus
FireDepartment.
When the dispatcher described
the scene as an explosion on
Middlebelt Road, he imagined
that one of the oil company stor-
age tanks was on fire. When the
ladder truck was a still few yards
from the scene of burning debris,
carnage and fuselage, they could
see the huge WEST letters on a
large piece of metal from the side
of the plane. The plane had been
turned upside down in the air,
had plowed under the three
Middlebelt Road bridges and
exploded, spewing 10,000 gallons
of jet fuel for half amile.,
“It was a sick feeling. It was so
quiet. So eerie and quiet. There
were only one or two sheriff
deputies on the scene,” Thiede
toldHoward andReddy.
As the young fire volunteer was
attempting to pull the hoses from
the truck, his assignment for the
night, he thought he heard a faint
cry. When he told another fire-
fighter about it, he was sure he
imagined it. They both knew that
nothing could survive the destruc-
tion theywitnessed.
But still, Theide knew he had
to try and find the sound he
heard. The two firefighters waded
back through the burning debris
to where Thiede thought he
heard the noise and discovered a
plane seat, nearly intact, but over-
turned in thewreckage.
When they overturned it, they
discovered badly burned, but
alive, 4-year-oldCeciliaCichan.
The authors also spoke to Dr.
Werner Spitz, who had seen 20
airplane crash sites before being
called to the ruin of Flight 255.
“I have never seen such com-
plete destruction. There is not a
bone left intact on the bodies,”
Spitz said of the devastating
crash.
Spitz, now 85, remains an icon-
ic figure in Wayne County history.
His medical specialties are foren-
sic pathology and toxicology and
he is considered by many as the
most prominent and experienced
inhis field.
He was called to the scene of
the crash of Flight 255 and
arrived about 45minutes after the
crashhadbeen reported.
“When I arrived, the fire was
still burning,” Spitz recalled.
Spitz told Howard and Reddy
that he is still affected by the hor-
rific sights of maimed and burned
bodies that filled a makeshift
morgue set up in an airplane
hangar. He set up sheets of ply-
wood on sawhorses, lined up row
after row, to try to identify victims
of the crash.
“The relatives, the families of
local victims lined up at the door
every day, begging for news,” he
said. “It took days, long hot days to
identify the remains.”
A team of doctors from Wayne
State University was assigned to
help Spitz attempt to piece the
bodies back together in the sheet
metal structure with no air condi-
tioning, poor lighting and no air.
Fans were brought in to help cir-
culate the rancid air of decay and
the FBI was called to help identi-
fy victims by fingerprints.
“I remember when they (FBI)
came, they gave us all hats that
said 'FBI',” Spitz told the authors.
“He was so visibly shaken talk-
ing about the events,” Howard
said. “Here's a man who has seen
just about everything, but this still
brought him to tears after all this
time.”
Again this year, there will be a
service at the Flight 255
Memorial located on a cloverleaf
of the I-94 expressway, about 30
feet up on a berm.
The center of three granite
panels has an engraved white
dove and the words, Their Spirit
Lives On. The dove holds a bright
red broken heart with the num-
bers 255 cutting a jagged line
through the center.
“This was an international
event back then when you didn't
have 24-hour news,” Reddy said.
“Our goal was to have the book
done to commemorate the
anniversary, but for many reasons
we got derailed. We both want to
complete it.”
“There are a lot of people who
remember. There are somany sto-
ries of heroism, tragedy and
human interest to be told about
that night,”Howard said, “and the
cause, really, remains amystery to
this day.”
This grant enabled us to purchase
a few books by Michigan authors,
such as Christopher Paul Curtis
and JohnathanRand as prizes. The
grant also helped with the cost of
performer, Joel Tacey. Joel per-
formed a comedy show based on
several different, night-themed
books and he showed up in his
pajamas and we encouraged our
participants to do the same.
Among other performers/guests
we had this summer were:
Butterfly Wings & Magical Things
(musicians and storytellers),
Baffling Bill the Magician, Juggler
Mat Emerick, the Fur Angels (ther-
apy dogs), Once Upon a Puppet,
and storytellerRosieChapman.
As a public library with a small
budget, we are extremely grateful
to all those who donated to our
Summer Reading Programs.
Thank you to Tim Horton's in
Dearborn, Best Buy in Westland,
Cherry Hill Lanes in Dearborn
Heights, Dairy Queen in Inkster,
Emagine Movie Theater, and the
Henry Ford in Dearborn for donat-
ing awesome prizes to give away at
our SummerReadingFinales.
JessicaWilhoite
YouthServices Librarian
LeannaHicks Library
Inkster Public Library
a copymachine. Then they alleged-
ly signed the petitions as true and
accurate, swearing to the authen-
ticity of the signatures and expect-
ed that nobody at the Secretary of
State's officewould check the valid-
ity of the signatures when they
turned them in. All four now face
both felony and misdemeanor
charges but, so far, McCotter isn't
accused of being complicit in their
attempt at fraud. Stupid, arrogant,
unconscious and foolish, maybe,
but no criminal accusations have
been forthcoming. Yet.
That aforementioned abrupt
announcement of his leaving office
also included quotes from Greek
philosophy and Bob Dylan. That
should have been a clue to anyone
reading it that the man may not
have been really thinking too clear-
ly and that perhaps the interven-
tion of amental healthprofessional
wouldbe appropriate or helpful.
This man was elected to repre-
sent the citizens of this area in
Congress, tomake decisions and do
what was best for them. His
responsibilities included the ethi-
cal, moral and legal conduct of his
office here in the district and in
Washington. He failedmiserably as
is evidenced by the findings of the
investigators who interviewed
more than 75 people uncovering
McCotter's failure to manage his
staff. McCotter remains the central
and responsible, but not criminal,
party in thismess.
This man's failure to provide a
moral compass, direction and lead-
ership for a staff of four people he
chose to operate his office can only
be an indication of his failure to
provide leadership and represen-
tation to those who sent him to
Washington.
We don't know what happened
to Thaddeus McCotter. We don't
know what caused this kind of
breakdown in conduct, profession-
alismandpublic service.
But we do know that his failures
have broken the public trust and
crossed the boundaries of accept-
able conduct for any elected offi-
cial.
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ICHIGAN
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August 16, 2012
Letter
FROM PAGE 6
Flight
FROM PAGE 1
McCotter
FROM PAGE 6
01. Obituaries
02. In Memoriam
03. Cards of Thanks
04. Monuments
& Cemetery Plots
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Carol Ann Lawson
Sunrise: March 26, 1948
Sunset: Aug. 6, 2012
Carol Ann Lawson died Aug.
6, 2012.
Among her survivors is her
daughter, Jo Ann Penn; a
granddaughter, Tiffany Penn;
four sisters, Joyce (William)
Rogers, Shirley Lawson,
Johnnie Lawson and Sharon
(Marlon) Greene; a brother,
Jerry (Linda) Lawson, all of
Pittsburgh, PA; a host of
nieces, nephews and other
family members, and many
friends.
Funeral services were at
Amity Baptist church on
Carlyse in Inkster with elder
Marlon Greene officiating.
Final arrangements were
entrusted to the Penn
Funeral Home on Inkster
Road in Inkster.
Interment was at Romulus
Memorial
Cemetery
in
Romulus.
Jessie Coe Barksdale
July 28, 1913
Aug. 2, 2012
Jessie Coe Barksdale died
Aug. 2, 1012.
Among those left to cherish
her memory are her loving
son, Robert (Etta Christine)
Barksdale; 11 grandchildren;
24 great-grandchildren; nine
great-great-grandchildren; a
host of cousins, and many
friends.
Funeral services were at
Christ Temple Church on
Colgate in Inkster with the
Rev. Luther Jenkins officiat-
ing.
Final arrangements were
entrusted to the Penn
Funeral Home on Inkster
Road in Inkster.
Interment was at Detroit
Memorial Park in Warren.
Walter Stokes McQueen
Sunrise: June 14, 1927
Sunset: Aug. 5, 1012
Walter Stokes McQueen died
Aug. 5, 2012.
Among those left to cherish
his memory are his devoted
wife of 58 years, Marion; his
children, Yvette McQueen of
Jackson, Teresa (Jimmy)
Ratliff of Southfield and
Walter Lewis McQueen of
Detroit; sisters-in-law, Emma
McQueen and Katherine
McQueen of Inkster and Ida
Mae (Willie) Robinson of
Highland, CA; four grandchil-
dren, Walt Jr., Corey, Nicole
and Jimmy, Jr.; many nieces,
nephews, cousins and other
family members, and several
friends.
Funeral services were at the
Penn Funeral Home on
Inkster Road in Inkster with
the Rev. Matthew Hoyle offici-
ating.
Interment was at United
Memorial
Gardens
in
Plymouth.
Haret Lee Austin, Sr.
Sunrise: June 17, 1922
Sunset: Aug. 5, 2012
Haret Lee Austin, Sr., died
Aug. 5, 2012.
Among those left to cherish
his memory are his daugh-
ters,
Barbara
(Henry)
Williams
and
Brenda
(Tyrone) Flowers; his son,
Haret Austin, Jr.; twos sisters,
Luerine McClendon and Mae
Dell, both of Cincinnati, OH;
many loving grandchildren;
great-grandchildren, and a
host of other relatives and
friends.
Funeral services were at
Shepard Star Baptist Church
in Dearborn Heights.
Final arrangements were
entrusted to the Penn
Funeral Home on Inkster
Road in Inkster.
Interment was at Westlawn
Cemetery in Wayne.
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