Monday, October 9, 2017

GETS  ONE THINKING


My sister Mary told me that one of the 58 killed in Las Vegas had a name like mine.  Got me thinking ....

Years ago there was a story of a guy who had the same name as I have and he took a bump on a plane out of Chicago - which crashed. Got me thinking ....

Andrea Castilla

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Andrea Castilla.Creditvia Associated Press
It seemed like the Route 91 Harvest Festival would be the perfect place for Andrea Castilla, a sales associate at Sephora in Huntington Beach, Calif., to celebrate her 28th birthday. Her sister, Athena, would be there with her fiancé, and Andrea and her boyfriend, Derek Miller, decided to join them.
And there was to be a surprise, according to People.com: Mr. Miller had been planning to propose.
He never had the chance. Ms. Castilla was killed in the attack, according to a text message from her aunt, Marina Castilla Parker, who posted photos to Facebook of Ms. Castilla beaming at the festival with her sister and their partners.
In an interview with People, Athena Castilla said she and her fiancé tried to keep Ms. Castilla from being stepped on after she fell. Athena said that strangers had helped put Andrea into the back of a truck for the drive to the hospital.
“I was holding onto her head and trying to keep her from losing so much blood, talking to her, kissing her, telling her she was going to make it,” Athena Castilla said. “We all did our best to help her get through it. We did the best we could.”

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