After Richard’s death we asked friends and family to make donations in memory of him to a couple of charities.

Since Richard was an eagle scout the Boy Scouts of America were a natural choice.

We also chose the WHAS Crusade for Children. The Crusade for Children is a local charity, featuring a weekend long telethon on WHAS 11 TV in Louisville.

From their website:

Our Mission

The WHAS Crusade for Children exists to change the lives of children with special needs in Kentucky and Indiana.

Our Vision

To be able to fully fund all grant requests for organizations that provide help to children with special needs.

Watching your 20-something child struggle with his health is really tough. I think it would be even more devastating to watch a small child fight health problems that will affect most of them for their entire life.

The Crusade gives them hope.

My brother Stuart and his wife Lori made a donation to the Crusade. I guess that at a certain level of donation you can have a brick placed on a special memorial sidewalk. Stuart and Lori got a brick for Richard.

The WHAS Crusade for Children sent us a nice certificate citing this gift and giving us the location of our brick.

Debbie went today and took a picture of the brick.

This is a nice way to remember someone you love and help someone that really needs it.

Thanks Stuart and Lori.