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PLEASE! I love to read the thoughts and reactions of those who visit my website, so I hope you will "contribute." If, as some guests have indicated, you'd like to help with this cause, please either e-mail me (see link below), or include a contact e-mail in your entry. To those who want to advertise junk stuff , PLEASE save your advertising posts for other, less serious websites that are not life threatening. This website is a matter of LIFE and DEATH, and therefore, has NO PLACE for spammers or advertisers. Date: 30 Aug 2005 Time: 08:31:55 Remote User: Comments This is a great website dedicated to an important cause. Drug addiction is a real problem that requires medical treatment and intervention... not jail time! The people who become addicted to narcotics are normal human beings who have made a poor choice that, in some cases, has cost them their lives. The stories on this site are extremely powerful! - Jen Wood Date: 30 Aug 2005 Time: 19:40:50 Remote User: Comments Dear Susan, It’s a great start on your new web page. I commend your hard work and effort in making a good thing out of a bad situation. If others would see what you have done with this web as well as beat the drum, I believe it may help other families possibly beat and save their children. Keep up the excellent work. Katie would have been so proud of you. EMTFFMoser Date: 31 Aug 2005 Time: 06:17:55 Remote User: Comments This is such a beautiful and sad web site. Sad, of course, for the obvious reasons. The beauty is in the light and awareness it brings to those who see it. Thank you. Date: 31 Aug 2005 Time: 10:44:42 Remote User: Comments These faces and their stories are touching and invite us to see the problems from a much more valid perspective. These are our children, our family members, our friends and neighbors. They are a part of us, and their passing has had a profound impact. May their lives and example save the lives of others. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! - Mark E. Banchi Date: 31 Aug 2005 Time: 14:40:00 Remote User: Comments This website is to powerful, hopefully it will reach out to teens and kids around the world that just one little "try"...could mean the rest of their life. Even though I didn't know everyone on this website, looking at all of their innocent faces kills me. I just wish there was something to do for everyone and their families who are dealing with drug addiction, before it's TOO LATE. Date: 31 Aug 2005 Time: 14:42:38 Remote User: Comments This website is to powerful, hopefully it will reach out to teens and kids around the world that just one little "try"...could mean the rest of their life. Even though I didn't know everyone on this website, looking at all of their innocent faces kills me. I just wish there was something to do for everyone and their families who are dealing with drug addiction, before it's TOO LATE...~Ashley Kane Date: 02 Sep 2005 Time: 03:39:47 Remote User: Comments Sue, Great web-site. I'm not sure if you remember me. I'm Laurie D. I live in Bucks County. (Morrisville). How do I add my recovery story to this site? I think people should know that I came from a very good, middle class, sub-urban family and how far this disease took me. I was recently watching some old home movies of myself as a kid. I can't believe that cute, little girl with the great family turned into a junkie whore. That just goes to show how powerful this disease is. Thank God for recovery and also for people like you who are trying to get the word out. Please e-mail me with how to submit namommy96@comcast.net Date: 05 Sep 2005 Time: 15:13:03 Remote User: Comments Great job Sue. The website is very sad but enlightening. Hopefully it will reach all the 'right' people and help them rethink what they may be doing with their lives. Date: 08 Oct 2005 Time: 17:50:33 Remote User: Comments The stories touched me. My heart goes out to you. This is a great website. Bless you, Trish Willis Date: 09 Oct 2005 Time: 11:14:20 Remote User: Comments Sue, Great job with this. I refer people often to your Beat the Drum. I will also tell people about this. It is so important not to give up on someone who has become hooked on drugs. I find people are still afraid or embarrassed to talk about a drug addiction or a loved one on drugs. Don't be! Get support where ever you can. LINDA BRACKEN Date: 13 Oct 2005 Time: 07:12:56 Remote User: Comments Dear Sue, Excellent Web site, dedicated to a great cause. You are helping a lot of people. I will be honored to pass this site along. The stories touched me and I know will touch everyone, who reads them, just the same. Keep up the Great Work!!!! Chryl Date: 13 Oct 2005 Time: 07:47:49 Remote User: Comments Such Beautiful and Handsome young people. This disease just keeps taking and taking. We all need to band together to try to help these young people get through these hard times right now because they also deserve to have a chance at a normal life. Date: 26 Oct 2005 Time: 12:33:58 Remote User: Comments I appreciate this site more than the majority of people my age category, 14-17 years, and I can understand this so much. It means a lot that people are actually trying to make a change. It's horrible when someone gets called a junkie, or calls it just another junkie death. That's not true, and I try to explain this to everyone I can. They were people with dreams and hopes, just like everyone else. It's not fair for them, or to treat them as if a plague to be avoided. I know this all too well. Before, when I was younger, I called them junkies, because I didn't know that it wasn't really their faults. A few years ago, three of my friends started drugs, and it was almost the end for one of them. They had all been great people, with decent school grades, and with decent home lives. But they got sucked into drugs and they were different people. They were victims of this horrible illness, and they all needed help. After one of them nearly died, she stopped using drugs. Then she eventually convinced the other two to as well. I am so grateful to have these people still in my life today. But it's not always a happy ending, like my three friends. They got out when they were ankle deep. Some never get out, like the two poor boys from your site. And another is my mum's poor friend Rose, "RoRo". She had used heroin too much when she was younger, and even though she had been clean for years, she died about a year ago. It was because of the damage from the heroin. And she left three kids behind, one who's paralyzed. It's not fair to her, and it's not fair to her kids. This all has to stop. I really hope your message gets out to everyone. I sure as heck hope it does soon. ~Dancing Kitsune Date: 04 Nov 2005 Time: 11:06:02 Remote User: Comments Sue, thank you for your efforts to raise awareness about the disease of addiction. My heart goes out to you on the loss of your daughter. My son is currently in recovery. I, like you, had not paid much attention before. I was living in a world thinking that because I loved my children so much and raised them right they would never do drugs. I was wrong. Not only was he doing it, he was doing it right under our nose, we were clueless! I had to read about my son's addiction in the police log of the newspaper. I do believe my mother is looking down from heaven and this was her way of dropping a brick on my head. My husband and I immediately spoke with our son. He went into rehab willingly for 28 days and has since been in a recovery house in Levittown. He has been clean for 3 months now, is paying his own weekly rent and working. I must say the fear and pain, while it gets a little easier every day, never goes away. I hope and pray every day of my life that he can overcome this disease and go on to lead a happy, successful life. Please keep up the cause! Date: 04 Nov 2005 Time: 15:13:50 Remote User: Comments I was at the vigil this past Friday! Wonderful job Sue! Keep up the good fight! ~Nicolette~ Date: 16 Nov 2005 Time: 21:52:36 Remote User: Comments This website is a wonderful tribute to these young lives. When I see these faces - I am so sad to know most of these "kids" never even made it to my age - 27. Growing up as a female in Northeast Philadelphia - I can remember vividly being 16. Being 18. Being 21. I remember the pressure, disappointments, depression. I always felt like there must have been something wrong with me. I also was very smart, gifted, straight A's, soccer player for 15 years. Looking back now, having gone to college, gotten rid of the losers that I thought were my real friends and realizing just who the few real friends were along the way, basically I grew up. Looking back, my life was not so terrible. But you could not have told me that when I was 16. Or 18. Or 21. I think that people, places and things are KEY to overcoming addiction, especially as a teenager. I myself would probably have been an alcoholic. I smoked weed and dust and had tried Ecstasy a few times.....but for some strange reason, I knew where to draw a line. I had a favorite aunt die when I was 10 from a cocaine overdose and also a brother who overcame his heroin addiction and has been clean for over 12 years now. I had seen so many lives wasted from these damn drugs. Between 1995 and 1999 I had 10 people that I personally knew die (and attended their funerals) resulting from drugs. It made me so angry. When I first went on to your site, I recognized one face immediately. Jennifer Kassof. I went to NE High School and would have been class of 96. But her face does not look familiar from school. I was always at the local playgrounds, and I don't know if it was Jardel or not, maybe between 94 and 97.......but her face is definitely one that I knew. If I am not mistaken there are 2 people that come to mind. One that had a sense of humor that could make everyone crack up laughing and one that was very quite. Terrible that I am not sure now, it has been so long. I think I may even have a picture of her somewhere. She was younger than me. I still felt sadness and shock to see her picture and story here. As well as all of the others. I commend your strength. You are quite possibly saving a life this very moment, of someone struggling or maybe just thinking of doing drugs who may now think twice because of this very site and your wonderful children. Take care. Anonymous F 27 Northeast Philly Date: 19 Nov 2005 Time: 16:45:21 Remote User: Comments Nov.19, 2005....This is truly a wonderful site.....I for almost 9 yrs. I have been looking for something that puts loved ones of lost loved ones in touch with others of the same.....Where do you go..... what do you do....And most of all how do you stop it from hurting you...And stop it from happening to any other person....I pray you reach so many of the ones that can be saved ,and the ones that were lost they need all the support they can get...Keep strong .....I lost a son at 27....and I have a daughter who was clean for 18 months ,just disappeared a month ago walking out on her 6 yr. old son who adores her.....His heart is broken..."DRUGS" how ugly....it has already destroyed his life at 18 months old....We need people who care and fight for rehab and medical for our children so they can get clean ,because anyone who has been there knows those issues, With groups like yours all of us should stand and support and fight as a group ...you can count on me...I am tired of fighting alone.....THANK YOU GOD BLESS YOU Date: 30 Nov 2005 Time: 20:50:30 Remote User: Comments I know first hand the heartache that drug addiction causes. I lost my beloved baby brother at the age of 19. He hanged himself the day after his 19th birthday. He hid his heroin addiction from his family for several months. Until I guess he couldn't do it anymore. This happened 10 yrs.ago. this Dec 13, and it is as hard today as it was the day I had to identify him at the morgue and tell our parents that their youngest boy would never come home. We as family and loved ones need to make the awareness of drug abuse Our children can come from the richest and poorest of families, and that doesn't matter we still have to go on with the stigma that these children died due to the fact that they were not raised right and that no one cared. Bull!!!! Our children brothers sisters mothers and fathers, are all still people and very much loved. Thank you for this web site we have all lost far too much and hopefully someone will see this and know the effects of their addiction and get help Date: 06 Dec 2005 Time: 19:59:27 Remote User: Comments I just wanted to write that while doing some research for in the Philly Inquire, I was sad to see that Jason Kassof passed away Nov 30th. If you are looking on the front page (of this website), one of the pictures posted there is of Jennifer Kassof. This was her brother. I think he may have passed from a life long illness. He was also a NE graduate. If there is an email address listed to Jennifer's story or you can access the guestbook at Legacy.Com. I am sure their family would appreciate your prayers.
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