Celebrating the Four Beautiful Lives Taken Too Soon After Saturday’s Limo Crash
Candlelight Vigil For Our Girls is the name of a Facebook Page started by one Smithtown Mom who like every other parent on Long Island was horrified by Saturday’s fatal limo crash in Cuthogue. That crash was caused by a drunken driver in a red pickup while the limo driver was making a U-turn, we all know the story, it’s been several days in the 24/7 news cycle. Four beautiful young women perished. Those young women were our girls, all of those precious young ladies were from Smithtown.
Smithtown is mourning for this devastating loss of young life and we have been since we heard the heart-wrenching news come across airwaves Saturday. There is a sense of sadness throughout the small township. It’s being discussed quietly in supermarkets, libraries and hair salons. Smithtown is devastated.
The funerals have begun, three of the four girls had/will have their funeral masses at St. Joseph’s in Kings Park. There is a saying ‘no parent should ever know that pain’ and it’s one I’ve heard my older female relatives say all their lives and it’s a saying I have repeated many times since I became a mother at twenty-four. Smithtown hearts are with the parents of the four millennials who were venturing out in the world doing their thing, who were just beginning their adult lives.
By the time a child reaches their early to mid-twenties, a great many of the fears parents have are things of the past. If they haven’t used drugs yet, statistically, they are less likely to start at that age. Their frontal lobes are almost fully developed, they are physically able to make better choices. They’ve been driving a few years, they have become competent drivers. They are either done with college or have chosen their career path. They are generally at a good place. Many parents can take a sigh of relief, look at their now adult children and say, ‘I’ve done well, look at them, I am so proud of them, thank you God’.
The Candlelight Vigil for Our Girls has been confirmed for July 29th at 7:30pm at Smithtown High School West, 100 Central Road, Smithtown, New York 11787
Please join the Facebook Page (like it) Candlelight Vigil for Our Girls. Six thousand people have already done so.
This week the tears are endless all over Smithtown – hearts are broken all over Smithtown for our beautiful girls.
If anyone or a company would like to donate candles for the Candlelight Vigil, you can order right from Amazon and have it shipped to Smithtown High School West, 100 Central Road, NY 11787. Thank you!