I bit my tongue through the first round (back in January) of “poor Walter” (Edwards) and “poor Vincent” (Edwards) why-are-they-dying articles.

I am still seething from the Lisa Hanson “Faces of Crack” tear-jerker story a few weeks back.

Then I opened the May 29 paper to yet another prominent, reference-tribute to good ol’ “Walter” and “Vincent” (no last names this time?) et al – “Grieving at Trinity.” Is this the best story the Sun Journal could print as a lead feature for Memorial Day?

Walter and Vincent were not broken-down, woeful individuals all their lives. They abused themselves and their bodies, which inevitably caused them “to go so quickly.” What a shock.

Take a look through the files of the police department, ambulance services, emergency rooms, county and state jail records, and just about every social service organization that existed during these nice fellas’ duration on Earth and see how many times these fine citizens had their names already “memorialized” in their records at taxpayer expense.

That’s enough memorializing of these fellows for me. So I won’t be attending the ever-touching ceremony planned where the mourners gather at Kennedy Park and “buy two 40-ounce bottles of beer and dump them in the park to remember the brothers.”

David Gudas, Lewiston

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