A Place for Linda Marie Steele Tate

About a month ago I posted the sad news that my friend Duane's wife (Lin) had died in a tragic accident and had given a link to the Strawmen Vault where you could hear/download a song Duane had written for her (Masquerade). It turns out that since Google owns Blogspot, these blog posts get indexed well by Google. So, a few of Lin's and Duane's friends found the Strawmen website via Google searches for Lin. I got an email from one of those folks, asking me to pass on condolences to Duane and the thought occurred to me to simply create a forum on the Strawmen's discussion board, The StrawBoard, so folks could leave messages of their own. So that's what I did. Click on the StrawBoard link, and you'll be taken there. You'll see a forum titled "In Memory of Linda Marie Steele Tate". If you are so moved, please leave words of encouragement, prayers, condolences, and expressions of sympathy.

I'm fighting fire with fire in doing this. Because the anonymity of the internet seems to bring the worst out in people, Duane has had the misfortune of reading some truly horific things about his dear wife's tragic death. He sent me a link, which I will not reveal, that made me sick. It would be nice if we could extinguish that darkness with a little light. Thanks for considering leaving a few "flowers", even if you didn't know Lin or Duane.