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Precious Memories: Quest, Deshawn, & Reggie

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On Monday July 11, 2011 AT 03:30 AM

in a fatal crash; Oil City, Pa lost Three

of it’s most valuable resources.

Quest Morgan-Green.

Deshawn Harris.

Reggie Brown Jr.

The most valuable resource any community

can have is it’s youth, but youth is not thee

reason these three were so valuable.

The reason is something even more precious,

something very few adults ever posess and

only those youth whom fate would make great

ever realize in their own lives before becoming

adults themselves.

Quest, Deshawn, and Reggie posessed an

outlook on life and an influance on others so

positive and strong that they changed forever any

life that happened to come under their special

brand of influance.

On first impression you probably wouldn’t have

given these boys much credit for being upstanding

citizens, most people focused on their weaknesses

and completely missed their strengths, that special

gift to the world sent by GOD himself.

But if you were brave enough, wise enough, or

fortunate enough to allow them into your life for

even a short moment; they would change the way

you saw life forever.

I have been reading and listening with much interest

over the past few days to all the stories and memories

of these three amazing youth.

Jennifer Wagner, Amanda Wagner, Crystal Markley,

and Cheyenne Paden spoke with me of their memories

of theser boys.

Jennifer remembers going to camp Boumont in Ohio

with them.

Camp Boumont is a camp for underprivilaged kids.

she remembers especialy how Deshawn was the nicest

kid there, He allways went out of his way to protect

the other kids from bullies.

Deshawn would take a stand for them whenever he

saw them being mistreated.

He did not respond to the bullies tactics in kind but

tried to talk, reason, and explain why they should not

be picking on the other kids.

If it was nesesary he would place himself physicaly

between the bullie and their victim to stop the

agression.

Jennifer said Deshawn loved his sisters and would do

whatever it took to help take care of them.

Also if you happened to be in a bad mood; Deshawn

would get right up in your face with only centimeters

between you and him and start making weird faces

and strange noises untill you could not hold it in any

longer, you could not help but bust out laughing.

If you tried to turn your face away from him he would

move right along with you keeping his face with your

face. there was no escape from his insistant

requirement of happiness for everyone around him.

Both jennifer and Amanda recall how Quest would

do crazy things to make people smile.

If you were in a room with Quest and he noticed you

were not smileing or having a good time; He would

spontasniously break into some weird dance right

in front of you and he would keep it up untill you

gave in and smiled.

Quest and Deshawn neither one could tolorate any

unhappiness in the lives of any one around them.

They felt it their personal mission in life to bring joy

and smiles to every one they met.

Reggie was not to be undone though; Jennifer and

Amanda told me about how if Reggie was hanging

with his homies, and someone got into a disagreement

or argument that Reggie would start a mock fight with

himself.

He would trip over nothing, roll around fighting with

nobody, beating up on air just making light of the

entire situation until everyone forgot what they were

arguing about and started laughing uncontrolably at

him.

All three boys had this uncany ability to zero in on

any one who was not at peak happiness no mater how

well you may have hidden it.

If one of them zeroed in on you, it was all over.

He would position himself where you would have to walk

past him, Sometimes they would work together and that

just made it all the funnier when it happened.

When you went to walk past them, they would grab hold

of you and start dancing another one of those goofie

dances, speaking loudly asking you what was going on;

why are you trying to dance with me.

They would not let you go until you turned red from

embaressment and smiled.

Crystal made a poster for them that said whenever

I see the stars I will remember you.

She said it was because whenever the boys were around

they made her believe that there was nothing she could

not do if she truly wanted to including reaching the stars.

She also remembers one day inparticular when she was

sitting on the front porch feeling down, the boys were

there and Quest and Deshawn both walked over to her

and pretended she was Santa Clause and started sitting

on her lap and hugging her and giving her their Christmas

wish list.

They would not let up until she started smiling and

laughing.

Just like any teen ager in any time period they did

have their negative moments.

But more often than not people seem to remember

them trying to make some sort of positive difference in

their community.

Cheyenne remembers Reggies brother Jarrod in school

could often be found talking about all the positive

influances he received from his older brother.

All in all these three boys; Typical teen habbits aside

made a huge positive impact in Oil City and their

surrounding community.

You could not know these boys any longer than the initial

first impression and not become a better happier person.

They would not allow any thing but happiness and joy to

survive in their pressence.

Most would not look at these boys and think “Christian”.

But from what I have learned of them the last few days,

these boys spread more of what Christ taught in their

short time here than any Christian does in a life time.

When Judgment day arrives, I believe these boys will

be among the chosen few to hear those precious words

“Well done thou good and faithful servant”.

I would personaly say “Dont cry because they are gone;

Smile because you were fortunate enough to have had

them ever so briefly in your life”.

As stated earlier, Youth is every communitys most

precious resource.

But every so often you will find embodied in one or more of

those youth : Love, Compassion, Joy, Laughter, Charity,

Protection, and the best that GOD has to offer.

Most of the time those traits go unrecognized until adulthood.

But once in a very long while tradgedy strikes, and we realize

with tears and regret that Christs gift was right here, right in

front of us all the time and we didn’t even aknowledge them.

Heavens gain is our loss.

Quest Morgan-Green, Deshawn Harris, & Reggie Brown Jr;

on behalf of Oil City and our community I tell you your efforts

were not in vain.

We will remember and pass on to our children and their children

all your wonderful gifts and love of life.

Sleep in peace my friends knowing you were a success.

When I have memories of you, they will make me smile.

I think this is what these three would tell us today in responce

to our grief.

Don’t cry because we are no longer with you; Laugh out loud

because right now, this very moment we are all three standing

right in front of you with our faces close to your faces and a Jim

Carey expression on our face and dancing the funkey chicken.

Chill Dude :P :P :P

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