Sunday, August 26, 2012
I Remember By Ashley Wells
I remember a time in youth
Brother&Sister, Frienimies.Torturment Always
Fighting,arguing...., - oh those were the days.
I remember, together as kids&teens
The fighting and arguing and all in between
The laughing and joking till tears filled my eyes
the day you left the earth.
I remember those times each day I wake
Not understanding God's choice in who to take
A brother, a father a good man to all.
I remember our last time together
Sitting and talking And playing the Wii well into the night
Together.
I remember you asking, ' Are you Shrek? '
Looking at you, I Say "No" And throw a nearby item at you.
I remember them saying You Were gone, And thats when everything
went down hill from there. even tho within our fights, we both know
that we loved each other, no matter how much we tried killing each other.
I remember that night in February
The phone call we've all come to fear
When i found out you were in a crash
i crossed my fingers, hoping that u wernt hurt at all.
I remember the words from the Coroner "It Is him. I'm sorry"
Kayleigh And my mom fell to the ground crying even more.
yet, some of us were strong enough to stay standing, but
still crying so much, that there wasn't enough liquid
to keep on going.
we all stopped, and walked/drove home. and thats when everything
got harder.we had to bare living next to Ur home. we had to bare
making arrangements for Ur funeral, and most of all the hardest thing
there was, was to believe u were gone. I still don't Believe it.
your fiancee, is waiting for u just to walk through the door and hug her
i am waiting for u to throw something at me, mom&dad are waiting for you
to ask for something. but these things will never happen again.
i miss those days....but we all have to be strong! they say
it will get easier each and every day, but it seems to be getting
harder for me.
I remember you brother always so strong
I pray every day, I hope you forgive me
I thought I could help you in a time of need
but i think it is good, none of us were there soon enough to get to u,
things could have been worse, if we had seen ur body during the scene.
even if we were there soon enough, there would be nothing we could do
for u have died on Impact.
I am grateful u did not suffer.
i am grateful that you had a family.
but , I am disappointed that none of us got to say goodbye.
In loving memory of my brother Cody Matthew Vaughn, Rest IN Peace.
'. 02-16-(idk the year he was born) to 02-06-2011
When you died, a part of my soul died with you
Here I Am Poem
Home, Home, Here I Am
after all these months,
these rooms fill me with pain
for my brother, is not here.
the creek in the backyard,
all dried up
i uncover the truth,
my brother is gone,
gone to heaven,
forever alone.
here i am,
with all that pain,
my heart cracks in two,
as i fall to the ground,
the couche i lay next to,
laughs at me,
with evil style,
winking at m
after all these months,
these rooms fill me with pain
for my brother, is not here.
the creek in the backyard,
all dried up
i uncover the truth,
my brother is gone,
gone to heaven,
forever alone.
here i am,
with all that pain,
my heart cracks in two,
as i fall to the ground,
the couche i lay next to,
laughs at me,
with evil style,
winking at m
Drunk Driving Report/Speech May 19 2012
Drunk driving seems to be an issue throughout the United States. Although many Americans seem to be against it they don’t seem to do much about it.
HOW BAD IS IT
Of all the traffic fatalities in a single year, 41% are a result from drinking and driving. In 1999, approximately 2.2 million crashes in the United States involved alcohol. At this rate nearly 17,000 people will die from alcohol-related crashes this year alone. But, some measures have been taken to reduce these numbers such as with the reduction in alcohol consumption and with increased publicity and enforcement of drinking-and-driving policies in the United States.
Most Americans do not see the severity of the problem and tend to look the other way when they come across a drunk driver. They tend to look at it as a normal behavior, but this is not a social norm. Drunk driving should be socially unacceptable. If more Americans would see drunk drivers as a threat then maybe something could be done about. Instead, by looking the other way, they accept this behavior as normal and make the same mistake of driving drunk as well.
Research has shown that drivers who are on the road later at night have an increased probability of having been drinking. When a nighttime driver is involved in a crash that only involves his or her vehicle, the probability that this driver is impaired by alcohol is very high.
Could you imagine being a driver in a car that was hit by a drunk driver?
How about if you were the drunk driver who thought that you were okay to drive but realized that it was a mistake when you crossed over into oncoming traffic and hit another vehicle head on. Then you woke up in the hospital and realized that you killed someone in that wreck.
According to Channel 14 news (14 News, 2011) There was a two vehicle head-on collision accident just after 4 p.m. on Sunday February 6th 2011. The wreck happened just outside of Uniontown Ky on Highway 360.
Several police and emergency rescue personnel had responded, they say it had taken them almost three hours to clear the scene.
Chief Ricky Millikan with the Uniontown Fire Department Emergency told 14 News that the accident was one of the worst he'd seen in his 30 years of service, because of the high amount of people that needed immediate assistance.
Kentucky State Police said the head-on collision occurred when a pick-up truck driven by 53-year-old Keith Kinglsey crossed over the center lane and collided into the path of a Mercury Cougar driven by 18-year-old Cody Vaughn.
Kingsley and his passenger, Shannon H. Smith, were ejected from their truck. KSP say neither were wearing their seatbelt. They were both airlifted to Deaconess Hospital, and were in critical condition.
Authorities say the passenger in Cody Vaughn's vehicle, 20-year-old Jacob French had to be extricated from the car. French was taken by ambulance to St. Mary's. Both he and Vaughn were wearing a seatbelt, according to KSP.
The Union County Coroner says that Cody Vaughn was pronounced dead at the scene. The cause of death was blunt force trauma.
More people that break the law and get away with it the more people will do it. If a father drives around while drinking and has his children with him then chances are the children will follow in his footsteps and think that it is ok to act and behave in such a way.
When you combine alcohol and the highway traffic system, evidence has shown that the control of drunk driving will create a significant amount of legal, political, and social conflict. The issue of drunk driving is part of the general issue of traffic safety, and the principal political force behind legislation usually embraces a variety of government bureaucracies concerned with traffic and transportation.
Many people tend to label drunk drivers as, “stupid people”, people who don’t know any better. But maybe they don’t know any better. They have lived in a society that has accepted drunk driving for so long that morally they believe it is ok. They do it, their friends do it, and even people on television do it. Alcohol companies advertise with vehicles, it is everywhere around us. Teenagers seem to think that it is “cool” and “fun.”
MAY 19 2012
My family has become a long way, we use to not care if we
drink n drive if its just one drink, but now even with a sip they
won't get in a car behind that wheel. We encourage you all to do the
same, because of those sips a drunk driver has taken my brothers life.
DONT DRINK AND DRIVE! R.I.P CMV
POEM'S MAY 2012
poem 1:
how do i make my self believe u are gone?
i never got to say goodbye
and now there is a ...blockage in myheart..
because i just lost my brother.
my evil brother
that tortured me day and night
R.I.P C.M.V
Poem 2:
I Still can't believe that your gone
and that you have died and went on to heaven
I never even got to say goodbye
So many emotions I can’t hide
Oh Brother I miss you so
I feel like part of me is gone
A friend and your sister too
Somehow I must go on
Now I don’t know what to do
Full of Pain and loss
My Brother you are gone now
But when I’m sad and all alone
I will still Know you areIn my heart And you've never left my side
Poem 3:
how do i make my self believe u are gone?
i never got to say goodbye
and now there is a ...blockage in myheart..
because i just lost my brother.
my evil brother
that tortured me day and night
R.I.P C.M.V
Poem 2:
I Still can't believe that your gone
and that you have died and went on to heaven
I never even got to say goodbye
So many emotions I can’t hide
Oh Brother I miss you so
I feel like part of me is gone
A friend and your sister too
Somehow I must go on
Now I don’t know what to do
Full of Pain and loss
My Brother you are gone now
But when I’m sad and all alone
I will still Know you areIn my heart And you've never left my side
Poem 3:
Sunday, July 22, 2012
The Day I lost my brother. 2-6-11
I never thought this day would come, not while i was still a teenager anyways. i was sitting at home, minding my own business , watching "Buffy the Vampire slayer" on my computer. While watching this show we recieved a Phone-call, mom is the one that notified us, we both ran outside praying to god that everything was gonna be okay, and that it wasn't as bad as they made it. but we were wrong. it was terrifying, horrible & Defestating. Me and my father stood on the porch for a good 15 minutes before my mother made it home to pick us up.
Driving down the road was the most scariest thing in the world, and it seemed that the drive took almost 2 hours, but no it was really only a 2 minute drive, rite down the road, over the hill, In Uniontown Ky. The street was 360 in uniontown. This here.. was the most horrifying thing in my life. i have never experienced something so horrible in my life, atleast not where i am old enough to have feelings and understand.
I lost my Sister before i was born, when i found out i was not old enough for feelings.. so i really dont feel any Sorrow for her death because i never knew her, and never had sisterly feelings. when i was about 3 years old i lost my Grandpa. I was still way way to young to understand. i do miss him a little but not enough to effect me seeing i never really knew him. then when i was about 7-9 years old i lost my Step-grandpa, who i had known for like ever. but again, i was still too young to know anything, but i did breakdown badly that day, but i was fine the next day, like it never happened. and that brings us to My brother.
I was 14 Years old, i never thought i could lose my brother before i was even 40 years old. but i was wrong. There i am standing in the road with a crowd of people, standing on the concrete completely barefooted, just looking down the road trying to get a glimpse of what was going on... trying to get a glimpse of my brother, hoping that he would walk rite out of the vehicle all perfect. but no that is not what happened.
we stood in the road for nearly 30 minutes before a coroner showed up, this is when the panic had increased, my heart was racing but i just culd not cry, that is because i was in the state of shock, i didnt know what to do, i had never been through anything like this, and i was at the age that i could understand things more, and have feelings. I stood there for a good 15 minutes just frozen in time.
before we knew it, it had been nearly 3 hours before the coroner had come to us and spoke to us. they had notified us that it was in fact, Cody Matthew Vaughn, 18 years old, almost 19, had passed away. He died from Blunt Force Trauma (I think) And it was Instantly. They notified us that he Most likely did not feel any pain at all.
When they told us that he passed away, i still could not cry.. i didnt know what to do.. i was still in the state of shock. Kayleigh, the fiancee of my brother fell to the ground screaming and crying, tearing up her cloths.. along with my mother. after a few moments everyone calmed enough to atleast stand up. i was sitting in a car just staring at the ground trying to figure out what to do. everyone ignored me. everyone else was comforting eachother while i was just sitting in the car all by myself.
After a few moments we all headed to my grandmothers that is, Me, Kayleigh, Dad, Mom and a few others anyways. everyone was trying to comfort eachother hugging and cuddling, while i sat in the floor nobody caring at all, staring dead on at the floor. but after everyone calmed my mom came and sat next to me and hugged me and talked to me, i culdn't reply, i didnt know what to say, thats when i finally started crying. when i realized everything.
they say there is many stages of realzing a death. "Denial" "Sadness" "Anger" "Regret" and possibly many more stages .
a few days later we had the funeral arranged. we all were in the morganfield funeral home. it took be a good 45 minutes before i would even go up there to see him. i had wrote a letter to him about our life and how we tortured eachother, that i wanted to be burried with him, but i just culdnt go up there, not yet. but after that dreadful 45 minutes i finally decided to go up there. my heart was racing.. but i did it. i culdnt stand up there long because i felt like i was gonna pass out, so i set it in there looked at him quickly, and walked away.
My uncle is the one that did the singing at the funeral. i do not recall what songs they were , but i know they were good. there was gifts for many people.
Cody Matthew Vaughn is a father of Now, 3 year old Haleigh Lyn Vaughn, and Step-father of Now, 6 Year old Faith Leighanne Vaughn. Haleigh was only 1 at the time of his death. faith was only 4 at the time of his death. it defestates me that they will not grow up with a father, especially Haleigh.
Now, i bet you all are wondering exactly what happened, who was invovled , and how it happened. am i right? Well, it happens that the Murderer of my brother was that of Faith Vaughn's Grandmother's Boyfriend. Faith's Grandmother was also in the vehicle with the murderer. the name of the Killer was "Keith Kingsley" i do not know the name of the grandmother. Keith was Drunk, and so was the grandmother. they just had to have 1 more drink, and decide to drive. and thats when they Hit my Brothers vehicle Head-on. My Brother had his seatbelt on. No, it would not have saved him if you did not have the seatbelt on. but thanks to my brother he did save his cousin "Jacob French" by making him wear his seatbelt, because he just did not want a ticket.
Jacob did Suffer some memory loss but not alot. i do not know if he recalls the accident or not. but we do know that he did get a few things mixed up like "Fishing and hunting" . and he got the stores mixed up. But he is doing well now, and i am so glad that my brother was able to save someone, even if he culd not save his own life.
As time went by, we decided to put a DUI Billboard up near where my brother had passed away.
This billboard is a drunk-driving billboard, in hope that nobody will ever drink and drive again. on this billboard there was a picture of my brother and his daughter, and a picture of the car that he was in when he was Murdered. the board also said "Because of a drunk driver, this child will never know her father" .
This Billboard Now stands today on Highway 360, in Uniontown KY.
R.I.P C.M.V Father of 2. Brother of 3, Son of 3 , Grandson of 4, Fiance of 1.
2-16-92 to 2-6-11
Daughters: Faith & Haleigh
Sisters: Ashley, Haleigh, And idk the name of the other sister seeing its not my sister.
Father and Mother: Tonya, and a man idk the name of. and stepfather is Joe.
Grandparents: Linda,(Idk name of papa) and William R, and Step-grandston of William.
Wifetobe: Kayleigh.
Driving down the road was the most scariest thing in the world, and it seemed that the drive took almost 2 hours, but no it was really only a 2 minute drive, rite down the road, over the hill, In Uniontown Ky. The street was 360 in uniontown. This here.. was the most horrifying thing in my life. i have never experienced something so horrible in my life, atleast not where i am old enough to have feelings and understand.
I lost my Sister before i was born, when i found out i was not old enough for feelings.. so i really dont feel any Sorrow for her death because i never knew her, and never had sisterly feelings. when i was about 3 years old i lost my Grandpa. I was still way way to young to understand. i do miss him a little but not enough to effect me seeing i never really knew him. then when i was about 7-9 years old i lost my Step-grandpa, who i had known for like ever. but again, i was still too young to know anything, but i did breakdown badly that day, but i was fine the next day, like it never happened. and that brings us to My brother.
I was 14 Years old, i never thought i could lose my brother before i was even 40 years old. but i was wrong. There i am standing in the road with a crowd of people, standing on the concrete completely barefooted, just looking down the road trying to get a glimpse of what was going on... trying to get a glimpse of my brother, hoping that he would walk rite out of the vehicle all perfect. but no that is not what happened.
we stood in the road for nearly 30 minutes before a coroner showed up, this is when the panic had increased, my heart was racing but i just culd not cry, that is because i was in the state of shock, i didnt know what to do, i had never been through anything like this, and i was at the age that i could understand things more, and have feelings. I stood there for a good 15 minutes just frozen in time.
before we knew it, it had been nearly 3 hours before the coroner had come to us and spoke to us. they had notified us that it was in fact, Cody Matthew Vaughn, 18 years old, almost 19, had passed away. He died from Blunt Force Trauma (I think) And it was Instantly. They notified us that he Most likely did not feel any pain at all.
When they told us that he passed away, i still could not cry.. i didnt know what to do.. i was still in the state of shock. Kayleigh, the fiancee of my brother fell to the ground screaming and crying, tearing up her cloths.. along with my mother. after a few moments everyone calmed enough to atleast stand up. i was sitting in a car just staring at the ground trying to figure out what to do. everyone ignored me. everyone else was comforting eachother while i was just sitting in the car all by myself.
After a few moments we all headed to my grandmothers that is, Me, Kayleigh, Dad, Mom and a few others anyways. everyone was trying to comfort eachother hugging and cuddling, while i sat in the floor nobody caring at all, staring dead on at the floor. but after everyone calmed my mom came and sat next to me and hugged me and talked to me, i culdn't reply, i didnt know what to say, thats when i finally started crying. when i realized everything.
they say there is many stages of realzing a death. "Denial" "Sadness" "Anger" "Regret" and possibly many more stages .
a few days later we had the funeral arranged. we all were in the morganfield funeral home. it took be a good 45 minutes before i would even go up there to see him. i had wrote a letter to him about our life and how we tortured eachother, that i wanted to be burried with him, but i just culdnt go up there, not yet. but after that dreadful 45 minutes i finally decided to go up there. my heart was racing.. but i did it. i culdnt stand up there long because i felt like i was gonna pass out, so i set it in there looked at him quickly, and walked away.
My uncle is the one that did the singing at the funeral. i do not recall what songs they were , but i know they were good. there was gifts for many people.
Cody Matthew Vaughn is a father of Now, 3 year old Haleigh Lyn Vaughn, and Step-father of Now, 6 Year old Faith Leighanne Vaughn. Haleigh was only 1 at the time of his death. faith was only 4 at the time of his death. it defestates me that they will not grow up with a father, especially Haleigh.
Now, i bet you all are wondering exactly what happened, who was invovled , and how it happened. am i right? Well, it happens that the Murderer of my brother was that of Faith Vaughn's Grandmother's Boyfriend. Faith's Grandmother was also in the vehicle with the murderer. the name of the Killer was "Keith Kingsley" i do not know the name of the grandmother. Keith was Drunk, and so was the grandmother. they just had to have 1 more drink, and decide to drive. and thats when they Hit my Brothers vehicle Head-on. My Brother had his seatbelt on. No, it would not have saved him if you did not have the seatbelt on. but thanks to my brother he did save his cousin "Jacob French" by making him wear his seatbelt, because he just did not want a ticket.
Jacob did Suffer some memory loss but not alot. i do not know if he recalls the accident or not. but we do know that he did get a few things mixed up like "Fishing and hunting" . and he got the stores mixed up. But he is doing well now, and i am so glad that my brother was able to save someone, even if he culd not save his own life.
As time went by, we decided to put a DUI Billboard up near where my brother had passed away.
This billboard is a drunk-driving billboard, in hope that nobody will ever drink and drive again. on this billboard there was a picture of my brother and his daughter, and a picture of the car that he was in when he was Murdered. the board also said "Because of a drunk driver, this child will never know her father" .
This Billboard Now stands today on Highway 360, in Uniontown KY.
R.I.P C.M.V Father of 2. Brother of 3, Son of 3 , Grandson of 4, Fiance of 1.
2-16-92 to 2-6-11
Daughters: Faith & Haleigh
Sisters: Ashley, Haleigh, And idk the name of the other sister seeing its not my sister.
Father and Mother: Tonya, and a man idk the name of. and stepfather is Joe.
Grandparents: Linda,(Idk name of papa) and William R, and Step-grandston of William.
Wifetobe: Kayleigh.
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