Re: My Brother
From The Ultimate Artist <ult...@artistic.net>
· alt.ascii-art
· 28 Sep 2003 06:48 · View full thread
"Quong Nguyen" wrote:
> I have sad news.
>
> My name is Quong Nguyen and I am Tran Nguyen's younger brother.
> Last weekend Tran and I went out late to a Taco Bell for some food
> when we were caught in the crossfire of a drive-by shooting in
> downtown Oakland. Tears are streaming down my face as I write this
> because Tran pushed me down to safety behind his Honda. He died
> four hours later at the Alameda County Medical Center. The doctors
> said he was dead the minute he entered the emergency room but they
> did their best. I've never really read the internet but he always
> talked about his friends on alt.ascii-art and making his
> buffoonish cartoons. He also wrestled with his alcoholism which
> had haunted him since early high school and his way of overcoming
> this demon was through laughter. Tran's ashes were scattered over
> the Pacific on Tuesday in a traditional Buddhist ceremony. His
> ascii art "farts" will remain on the web for generations to come
> so he won't be forgotten.
I pray to Buddha for Tran's soul, Whitey-san.
/
Don't worry, Kirara.
Something tells me
that reports of Tran's _
death are greatly _ooOoo_
exaggerated. o8888888o
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,cc8cf6e45c4730f1 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-28 12:05:26 PST Path: news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!mtu.ru!image.surnet.ru!news1.spb.su!news.wplus.net!newsfeed.wplus.net!not-for-mail From: "The Ultimate Artist" <ult...@artistic.net> Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: My Brother Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 06:48:09 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Webplus NEWS server Lines: 68 Message-ID: <bl6075$16vm$1...@news.wplus.net> References: <200...@mb-m24.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-64-38-163-64.dialup.seanet.com X-Trace: news.wplus.net 1064731689 39926 64.38.163.64 (28 Sep 2003 06:48:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: use...@news.wplus.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 06:48:09 +0000 (UTC) Xref: news1.google.com alt.ascii-art:39
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