Standing in the sunny kitchen, James Eklund pulled out a wallet. The Eklunds were waiting for the nun when she arrived at a reception at the Lesmeister family farmhouse. You may want to talk to his parents about his personal effects.”
Lesmeister helped bear the casket, draped in a flag, to a hearse for the five-block ride to the cemetery, where a soldier played “Taps.” As it was lowered into the ground, a soldier approached Sister Mrosla.
They filed up the stairs, into the sanctuary and past the open black casket. Mourners at Mark’s funeral lined the block around the red-brick Assumption Church, second only to the town’s grain elevator in height. I remember telling him I was praying for him.” She filled her letters with stories about her students and how much they were like his class. “He was scared to death from the shooting,” Sister Mrosla said. He told his former teacher about lying in his bunk listening to a firefight one night. But to friends, including Sister Mrosla, he revealed fears of dying and frustration over what he perceived as a fruitless war effort. His letters to family painted a safe picture, describing his work as a clerk at a truck parts depot far from the shooting. In 1999, Sister Mrosla talked to an Associated Press reporter about Mark Eklund: (Although he died in Vietnam, Mark Eklund was not killed in combat he died in his sleep of a pulmonary and cerebral edema.) In August 1971, as she was returning from a vacation, Sister Mrosla learned of Mark’s death from her parents. In April 1971, Mark was sent to Vietnam and assigned to the 585th Transportation Company in Phu Bai where he worked in a truck parts depot, and he kept in touch with his family and friends (including Sister Mrosla) through letters. Mary’s School in Morris, Minnesota, in 1959, and she encountered him again in 1965 when she served as his junior high math teacher. Sister Mrosla first met Mark Eklund in her third-grade classroom at St. Her article also appeared in Reader’s Digest that same year, was reprinted in the original Chicken Soup for the Soul book in 1993, and was offered yet again in 1996’s Stories for the Heart. Sister Helen Mrosla, a Franciscan nun, submitted “All the Good Things” to Proteus, A Journal of Ideas in 1991. (Just in case we missed the point, the didactic end paragraph states it explicitly.) And why not? It epitomizes principles we fervently wish to believe: that a dedicated educator (and religion) can make a positive, lasting difference in one’s life and that the world would be a better place if we found it in our hearts to reach out to each other. You can just select these power-ups at any point, to zap away a zig-zag of spare number balls, or to destroy a whole bubble of them.This inspirational tale of the “teacher who made a difference” (and its unnecessary explanatory coda) can be found on hundreds of web sites all over the Internet and has been widely forwarded as a “good luck” chain letter via e-mail. Try making bigger combinations of smaller numbers to win bonus points, and even earn power up balls! Selecting a sequence of 4 or more numbers will add up and give you a lightning ball, or maybe the more advanced bomb ball, to help you clear some spare space on your screen. If your goal is 13, then you can't select two 7's (because there's no -1!). If your goal is 8, then you can't select a 7 (because there's no 1!). The math balls range from 2 to 7, so sometimes you'll have to get creative with your addition.
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