CLOSURE ELUDES FAMILY OF SLAIN SIMI OFFICER.Michael Michael, archangel Michael (mī`kəl) [Heb.,=who is like God?], archangel prominent in Christian, Jewish, and Muslim traditions. In the Bible and early Jewish literature, Michael is one of the angels of God's presence. F. Clark - a police officer, a husband, a father, another statistic statistic, n a value or number that describes a series of quantitative observations or measures; a value calculated from a sample. statistic a numerical value calculated from a number of observations in order to summarize them. of the world we live in. Two years later, with his murderer in jail for life, we ask ourselves the question, ``What is closure?'' By definition, closure means a finish, an end, or a conclusion. But for our family, a question asked so often is still a question with few answers. It has been two years since Michael was murdered and we still ask ourselves, ``Where is justice?'' After two trials, do we have closure now that defendant Daniel Daniel, book of the Bible Daniel, book of the Bible. It combines "court" tales, perhaps originating from the 6th cent. B.C., and a series of apocalyptic visions arising from the time of the Maccabean emergency (167–164 B.C. Tuffree has been convicted and is in jail? Somehow I believe that the whole family felt that on March 17, the day the judge sentenced Tuffree to a life sentence, we would feel relieved and perhaps would experience this elusive closure so many have asked about. The relief did not come, nor did any type of this so-called so-called adj. 1. Commonly called: "new buildings ... in so-called modern style" Graham Greene. 2. closure. I wish I knew what would bring closure for my family, especially my sister, Jennifer Clark. I believe my sister herself put it best in a statement made the week before the trial: ``No matter what happens to Tuffree, justice will never be served because Michael will never come back.'' All you have to do is watch Jenny with my 2-1/2-year-old nephew NEPHEW, dom. rel. The son of a person's brother or sister. Amb. 514; 1 Jacob's Ch. R. 207. , Bayley. He'll never know his father, a man who loved him very much. Bayley has begun asking about his father, and as you watch Jenny hold his little face in her hands and say, ``Daddy lives in heaven,'' your heart breaks all over again. You know that there is no closure and justice is something you read about in books. You can distinguish our family members by the badge they wear around their necks, engraved en·grave tr.v. en·graved, en·grav·ing, en·graves 1. To carve, cut, or etch into a material: engraved the champion's name on the trophy. 2. , ``In memory of Michael 8/4/95.'' So, when we talk of closure, I do not see how this will ever be something my family could possibly experience. As the answers have been elusive, so shall this feeling, for all we have to do is look into Bayley's blue and unaware eyes and you know neither closure, nor justice, exist. At least not in murder. It has been two years since Michael was murdered. Again, I write this in his memory and the memory of all who have died and all who have somehow survived. We miss you, Michael. - Jana D. Leth Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. |
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