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We never hear of the victim s father and mother who have to keep on from day to day, feeling that all their physical strength has completely left them—pulling themselves up by their boot straps so the two brothers and one sister won’t feel that the bottom has dropped out from under their feet.
“We never hear of the brother who was so very close to his year-and-ahctlf older brother wanderii.j from bedroom to bedroom when it is time to retire, visiting with his little brother and sister and his mother and dad, and his grandmother—talking about first one thing and another, dreading the time when he must go to his bedroom alone—sighing and tossing in his bed until late at night.
“We take other people's trouble so casually—surely something could be done to lessen the number of lives that are lost along the highways.”
This mother’s poignant picture of -.what, an accident has done to her? family only begins to tell the full story of “Operation Heartbreak’ in the homes of America’s 40,000 highway fatalities in a year’s time. As Mr. Blaisdell points out, this is part of the uncounted indirect toll of these accidents, -but it is in under-*— standahle human term-; that perhaps_ might make a deeper impression on the drivers of American families than cold statistics of the dead and injured.
If motorists respond with safer driving because their emotions are moved by the tragic results of accidents as drawn by this and other bereaved mothers, and if the legion of those left behind !by the victims of automobile accidents could be organized into an army of ardent
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