It’s small. It doesn’t help a lot of people. But it helps some.
Danny’s on the board. He insisted. He’s sixteen now. He goes to every meeting. He takes notes in a spiral notebook.
The Missouri Department of Transportation put up a sign in April.
On Interstate 70. Eastbound. Mile marker 52. Near Concordia. Right where it happened.
It’s a small blue sign. The kind they put up for memorial highways.
IN MEMORY OF LISA AND TOM BROOKS
WHO STOPPED
David Reyes handled the paperwork. He said the state usually doesn’t put up signs for private citizens. He said it took eleven letters.
“I’m good at writing letters,” he said. “Somebody taught me persistence.”
We drove out to see it on the third anniversary. October fourteenth.
All of us. In Hank’s old Buick with the new brakes. Me and Ellie. Vanessa and Danny in the back seat.
