(続)ボトルに入れた手紙
アメリカで、１１年前に学校の授業の一環で湖に流したメッセージを入れたボトルが見つかったのだが、それは書いた人が死んだあとだった。
１９９５年に１０歳だった少年はボトルを湖に投げ入れたあと成長し、海軍で中近東に従軍して最近帰ってきたのだが、車の事故で他界したとのことである。(ってことは、２１歳だったってことか)
これを湖で見つけたのは、死んだ男性の親友だったらしく、男性の母親に手渡したらしい。
母親は、このメッセージを息子が書いた日の事まで刻銘に覚えていて、このメッセージが出てきたことを死んだ息子からのメッセージだと考えているようである。
このワタクシは、神秘的な事など何も信じないが、、、ちょっとセツナイ話である。
ちなみに、「ボトルに入れた手紙」で先日もぼやいたが、そのときの内容とは大違いである。(参照：「ボトルに入れた手紙」)
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Man's bottle message found after his death - Yahoo! News
ANTIGO, Wis. - Years after casting a bottled-up note into a lake for a class project and just one year after his death, a man's childhood message has been found and returned to his mother.
Eleven years ago, a then 10-year-old Joshua Baker wrote the message nestled in an empty vanilla container, his mother, Maggie Holbrook said. He died last February following a motor vehicle accident in California. He had recently returned home after serving in the Middle East as a U.S. Marine.
"I think he was just letting us know he was OK and to keep doing what we are doing," Holbrook said.
The message surfaced in White Lake in late April, just days after the 11th anniversary of its casting. It was found by one of Baker's closest friends, Steve Lieder, of Antigo, she said. Lieder and two friends were chatting near the lake when they looked down and saw the bottle. They broke it open and found the note inside:
"My name is Josh Baker. I am 10. If you find this put it on the news. The date is 4/16/95."
They immediately took it to Holbrook, who said she is now having the note preserved and will display it in her home.
She can remember when her son wrote the message for the school project. She said she always wondered why they didn't put it in the nearby Wolf River, which has a much stronger current.
"I still remember the day he wrote it," Holbrook said. "I couldn't understand why they threw it in the lake. No one would ever see it again. Now I know."
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