Song of the Day: Go Rest High On That Mountain

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On February 13,1997, our friend Neal Abernathy and his Twelve Year Old Son we’re brutally murdered in their home in Hercules, I had just turned nineteen a couple of months before and before that Neal has given me my first laptop this was an expensive machine at the time, but he had said as a writer I was going to need a computer, sadly about a year or two after the murdered, the laptop was stolen, leaving me heartbroken because it was a gift from our friend who had since been murdered. I remember the shock of reading about the murder, the constant phone ringing as plans were made, funerals and memorials planned, and just trying to be there for Sue, I remember Neal’s sister singing Go High On That Mountain somehow mustering the strength to do so. I remember giving Sue my condolences and comforting her or at least trying too and giving her a 5 by Seven Senior Pic I had graduated just months before, and she had seen the pic and asked for a copy! I remember the pain of knowing someone intentionally took the life of a bright twelve year old boy who given the chance could have been something great, I remember feeling the loss of a man who gives you a computer that at the time probably cost close to $5k! I remember knowing that this just didn’t happen to other people! And I remember this song...