The funeral I can't get out of my mind this week

[Danmel]

8. Thank you dsc for posting this

It made me cry, as it should. We should vow to remember Jamel. And vow to honor his memory by teaching our children to love each other and be kind.

Many years ago, a young child, maybe 3 or 4 years old, was found dead in the garbage disposal chute in a large housing project in Brooklyn.
No one had reported him missing. No one noticed he was gone. It broke my heart. I tried to wrap my brain around what a small child like that must have felt. I tried to wrap my brain around what parent could care so little for such a small defenseless child. I tried to wrap my brain around why the hundreds of other residents of the large apartment building where this poor child was found, dead, in the trash, didn't know he was missing or who he was.
I vowed to remember him so someone would, even though, obviously, I never met him.
His name was Keyshawn Blackledge Poole.