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Spike’s Ride supports Sandy Hook community --letter to the  Lakeville Journal in CT

Spike’s Ride for Sandy Hook (find them on Facebook) will be held Saturday, May 3, 2014 at Lime Rock Park and is a special way to show support for the community of Sandy Hook as well as our own hometowns. When we take a day to acknowledge others (and realize time is not just about money but about LIFE) “magic happens.”

I’ve experienced this in many ways both through difficult and joyous times.

My father Dale Dee Palmer, Sr was a larger than life kind of guy, growing up out West in New Mexico as part of a big Mormon family (is there any other kind?) and going to World War II in the Coast Guard for 3 years, then heading to the Northeastern part of the US, to marry my Mom Mary (also a Sr.) who was from Torrington CT.

Both Mom and Dad were born in the summer of 1922, with Mom's Real Birthdate August 14th, though she thought it was the 12th her whole life but I learned two years after she died on June 2nd, 2004 that her birth certificate had her birthdate as August 14th.

Lucky me, I'm listening with great appreciation to the well-spoken, intelligent, caring Congressman Elizabeth Esty of CT. Many people are on the line who got a call and joined in with an option to ask a question in turn. She is like a baseball player ready to call 'batter up' asking for one person after the next to give insights and questions about local and national concerns.

The topics I've heard covered in this second forum I've listened in on are vast--educational loans mounting for thousands of students (and she'd put numbers in the blanks to astound us that the problem is bigger than