Not even two full days have gone by since this nightmare began. My name is Angie I am Shanie Boys/Joseph’s Aunt (his mom Fawn’s sister) I wanted to start this to help alleviate any thought or worry about expenses related to this horrific accident. Time off work, bills and to do something good in Shane’s honor. We’d love to be able to make some kind of change to this intersection, even if it’s to save just one person from losing their life. All money raised will go directly to Luke and Fawn. Shane was leaving work at Red Lobster in Winchester Va, Thursday night. He was at a red light waiting to turn into his neighborhood, his light turned green because of this particular intersection you can’t see any traffic coming up. Shane went at his light and was T-Boned at a high rate of speed someone running red light. That’s all we know for certain. We find a little comfort knowing he did not suffer. As we have been listening to memories, reading people’s comments online, text, calls, It’s shows how many lives he touched. He was only 6 months away from earning his Bachelor’s degree that he has worked so hard for. I wanted to share a paper he wrote for a scholarship just to shine some light to the ones who don’t know him as to what a good kid he was. The summer before my senior year high school presented me with one of the biggest challenges I have faced. I was playing football for the school when my coach starting bringing in other players from close schools to play over our own players. These were people that have never been in the program that would not start at their own school but were promised starting spots at ours if they transferred. One of the captains decided to speak up about this and was immediately made to step down as captain and one the coaches favorites was made captain instead. At our school the players vote on their captain that way we know we can trust them and that they will have our best interests in mind when talking to coaches. The new captain was not voted on and was chosen because he never talked against the coaches choices no matter how wrong. At this point I knew I had 2 choices, continue playing and watch as people from other schools took spots away from our own players or with some friends quit playing so that the coaches would maybe think that people did not agree with their decisions. While from an outsiders perspective this may not seem like such a big deal football had been at the center of my life for 9 years and this was not something I wanted to stop. I thought about it for weeks debating the pros and cons and decided that I would not stand behind a coach that does not stand behind his own players. One thing I did not expect was some of my friends that decided to stay and had been my friends for years would completely shut out those that quit including me. Not only did I lose a sport that I enjoyed but I also lost many friends for standing up for what I believed to be an unfair practice in a small town where football is not an important part of the community. Hard working, honest, and responsible are words I hope to be associated with. My mother raised me by herself for 4 years after I was born until she meet my step-dad and even since then I was taught that nothing was handed to you and you have to work for everything you want. This lesson my parents taught me has defined my entire world view and everything I have done is to get the most out of life. From school to work I do the best I can so that no one else has to make up for my mistakes. I have seen my parents lesson first hand when going through life, everything I have was not given to me after myself no effort towards it but because I worked hard and did what I needed to so that I would be able to get what I wanted. I deserve this scholarship because I know what it means to work hard for something and I know if given this will provide the extra incentive to follow my dreams and be successful without thousands of dollars of student debt following me around. My parents work hard but are not rich or even upper middle class, we get by with enough money to do something we want to but I still hear them talking about what we need to cut to pay the mortgage or buy groceries with. This money would not only help me, but relieve one less thing from my parents financial situation. This scholarship would change my dream of getting my bachelor degree to being able to go to Law School and become a lawyer like I have wanted to do for years. My family is not poor by any standards but neither are we well off. My family sits in the middle class but only because my father and mother work very hard to keep us there. For sometime we were sitting very comfortably at upper middle class but my father has taken a large pay drop and because so we have had to downsize spending tremendously. With me starting college and my parents already tight on money this scholarship would provide a good amount of money for me to go and not worry about my parents suffering financially because of it. I won't pretend that we would have to sell our home or take out tons of student loans to get by, but we would have to take out some and my parents would feel the full impact of the college tuition during a time that already has us low on money. Shane will be missed by all. Please wrap his family in your prayers. No mother should ever have to bury their child. I’ll never understand why this happens.
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