Why Didn’t You Search for Your Family?

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I watched the rolling waves on the lake as the breeze gently blew. The golden sky reflected off the lake, Lake Melanie, the latest of our achievements. From the beginning twenty years ago, our vision came to life. Roads constructed, buildings went up, and people arrived in droves, now this.

My wife, Bethany, and our three children, Bobby, Roy, and my baby girl, Melanie never made it here to see…