Fred Young

My wife was looking at the class of 95 blog the day that the news about Fred Young was posted. She asked me if I knew him and I just replied, "of course". I think I asked if he had a blog and then she told me that he had been killed in a car crash with his future wife by a piece of crap drunk. I could not believe it! I know that a lot of people saw that news, read it and then just thought, "huh, that is too bad".
There are two people I respect more than any other people that I have ever met. One is a guy I used to work with that had come full circle from a life of major drug abuse, addiction, distribution and a really rough life. He is now a wonderful dad, works harder than anybody I have every met, except my dad, is humble (not forced), goes to the temple and teaches young people at church. People always talk about these people they respect on their blogs, like Oprah (loser) and other people who do nothing but talk big. Well the other person I respected more than anybody I can think of was Fred Young.
I knew Fred pretty much my whole life. I went to a couple of his birthday parties when I was little. I used to get so mad when I saw how people treated Fred that it just made my blood boil. If people had know how his home life was they would never have treated him with such disrespect and ignorance. I personally saw how he was treated at home and I will just leave it at that. Me and my cousin used to defend Fred at all cost's and always tried to help him after people got done teasing. Well I respected Fred because with all the vicissitudes that hampered his life, he faced them all with a smile and a tenacious determination that would not quit. I saw him go on his mission and I know from what others told me that he worked harder than anyone can imagine only to get sent home for health and personal reasons. He was mad that it happened, but could do nothing about it. I used to see him at UVSC every day while going to school and he put hours and hours upon hours into school with tutors and instructors so he could get through his work load of accounting classes to try and get a degree. He did this while he also worked full time hours into the night with maintenance for UVSC. It was amazing to see him get his degree in 2006 after working towards it for 8 years.
I know that he had a purpose to serve on the other side and I know he will do it with the same determination that he did on this world. I just wish I would have know that he died so I could have gone the service and paid respect.
These two people I talked about could teach people more about life and living than any of the lame celebrities and moron 'Sean Hanities' in the world. I just wish people would look at some of these examples and be more grateful about things instead of whining about how hard their "comfortable" life is!