A Moment Later

By Dave Mende

My friend Joe and I were carrying boxes from my second floor office down the fire escape because it was the shortest way to get to my pick-up truck parked at the street. It was about 30 feet from the stairs to my truck. When we unloaded the boxes, we turned around to make a return trip. We could see that a large part of a huge tree had fallen on the sidewalk a Moment after we had walked under it. Neither one of us actually heard the tree hit the ground. Both Joe and I would have been killed.
Joe and I would not have been able to see our children graduate from high school and college. I would have never known my three daughters-in-law and my five great grand children. Over 300 children would not have had the opportunity to have Joe as their teacher.