In love and in life, we make choices.
In the end, we hope those decisions were the right ones. That we selected the proper career. That maybe our husband or wife was our one true love, our forever Valentine. And that all those paths we chose along the way, perhaps, were woven together into some sort of destiny.
But what if we'd made different choices?
Would it have changed who we became?
Different choices may have altered life's course for Russell Staufken
For Russell Staufken, different choices may have altered his life's course. Too many times, it turned out, he didn't do enough right things. He was a 73-year-old Navy veteran, who died alone 20 years ago. He'd lived in a grimy, unkempt trailer in Sunny Acres park in Perry Township. He was dead for a week before anyone missed him. The only people at his funeral were the funeral director and a military honor guard.