Dear Editor,
I am a good friend of Joshua Hudson. I am writing in response to a letter that was posted in last Friday's letters to the editor, in which Paul Chandler made the comment that Kevin Smith was Josh's killer and should be prosecuted to the fullest for vehicular manslaughter.
I think that after something as tragic as an unexpected death, it is easy for people to place blame on others who were involved in the situation. In this case, I am one of the brokenhearted friends who cry for Josh every day. None of us fathomed having him taken away from us, and most of us are still struggling each day to walk to class and pretend to be normal without breaking down at any given moment. I love Josh with all of my heart and would give anything to see my friend again. However, no amount of grief that I might be suffering will convince me that legal action should be taken against Smith.
I, along with the rest of Josh's friends, wish no harm to come to him.
Josh's father, Greg Hudson, stated at the vigil we held that his family offers nothing but sympathy for this man who was caught in a situation that could have happened to any one of us.
I live every day with the reality that Josh is gone. I only ask that as Ball State University students and members of the community, we come to the reality that it could have been any one of us in the car that day that turned without seeing Josh on his bike. Let's not make this horrible situation any worse by condemning Smith for a simple mistake.
Instead, let us be sympathetic to how he must be feeling and keep present in our minds a skinny, quirky, emo kid who left some of us with tattoos in his honor, some of us with awesome CDs and a lot of us with memories we won't forget.
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