What a sad day for Broken Bow

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Damn, I'm very, very sorry to hear that. To me, that will always be Kent McClogan (sp? damn....I'm so old I can't remember anything anymore) territory. It's a unique and GREAT, GREAT part of Nebraska.

 

May God hold them in the palm of his hand.....

 

[NUance]

Broken Bow students still recovering from deadly crash

By Roseann Moring WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER, Posted: Tuesday, July 3, 2012 7:32 am | Updated: 7:38 am, Tue Jul 3, 2012.

 

As Chad Christensen lay unconscious after a car crash that took the lives of two people, the 17-year-old kept pulling out the tubes that supplied nutrients and medication to his body. A nurse suggested that his parents give him something to occupy his hands, so his father gave him a baseball.

 

Though it would be a week before he woke up and two weeks before he could talk, Chad's fingers found the laces. Soon he was playing a very gentle game of catch with his parents.

 

On Monday night — almost a month to the day of the June 1 crash — No. 21 on the Broken Bow High School baseball team threw the first pitch at the Lincoln Saltdogs game, eliciting cheers from the stadium and tears from his father.

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Chad and two of his teammates, and several family members were at the Saltdogs game last night. One had a broken femur, the other two broken femurs, and Chad was still dealing with his trauma. Chad threw out the first pitch and got a hug from a very cute Ms. Nebraska. The families were all wearing Team Chad t-shirts, and on the back they say, "I'm just recharging my batteries" or something like that.

 

He looks, from the cheap seats where I sat, like a fighter. He has a lot of work to do, but there is no reason to believe he can't do it.

 

Good luck, Mr. Christensen. God bless you.