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Many people have PM'd me and asked why I started this series. Many more are probably glad I'm done. Several criticized because they weren't desktop material. And they are right. I did it because the story cried out to me to be told. I did it for young men like this...what, 6 or 7 years old, walking home from school by himself in one of the worst neighborhoods in Milwaukee. Chances are his father is not in his life. Chances are he'll never graduate from high School. Chances are by the time he's 25 he'll be incarcerated. Yeah, I know he's in the shadows. Theirs a shadow over his whole LIFE, folks. And yeah I know the dumpster is over-exposed...part of the reason for this whole series has been to expose things like this. This Country is broken and if we don;t do something fast we're in deep trouble. We need parental responsebility, fewer absentee dads, better schools, affordable housing, family supporting jobs...but most of all we need hope. Such a simple word, 'hope', yet something that is a rare, rare commodity in the brutal Central City of Milwaukee. We need to take our streets back from the drug dealers, the gang-bangers and the whores...we need to make it clear that we will not be afraid in our own front yards, andwe won;t allow children to grow up in desperate situations like this. But at the same time we need to provide all of things I listed above. Because when we don't things like this happen. And the tradgedy spreads. Hope. Such a small simpple word. Will you look in the mirror and ask what you can do to share some?