33 Years Later

Bill: Here it is March 27, 2014; thirty-three long years ago that you disappeared without a trace from our lives. Our memories of you are all fixed as if you were the same looking 33 year old that we remember. But, if you are alive, of course, you are not; you are 66 years old. We keep hoping and praying that you are, in fact, alive; that you have found happiness and love and perhaps have a wife and children. Nothing would make us all happier, especially since we are sliding down the back side of the mountain awfully fast, then to see you walk through the door with that quirky, smirky, smile and raising a can of Miller’s Lite, puffing on a Marlboro, jutting out that Buddha Belly, and dragging along your entourage.

Perhaps, that is never to be; perhaps, that night or early morning in New Jersey you met fate, and the end of your life. But that is what we do not know, and for 33 years we have NOT known. It is the ‘NOT KNOWING’ that is so unbearable – so gnawing. To think of the thousands and thousands of parents and siblings of MISSING CHILDREN and ADULTS, and all those MISSING IN ACTION in all the wars, and the millions of families who never find CLOSURE is heartbreaking, and we are in that group.

Oft times we think of THE HOLY FAMILY: Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Joseph died sometime before Jesus, and our father died shortly before you disappeared; Jesus died an horrific death at the age of 33; you either died or disappeared at the age of 33; and Jesus’ Mother, Mary lived for a time after Christ’s death, and your mother and ours lived for 21 years after you disappeared suffering every day with the doubts about what had happened to you. Maybe, it is right and just that THE HOLY FAMILY had closure – they knew that Christ died, rose from the dead and ascended into heaven.

Why cannot our family and all the others have the same closure, bringing to end the suffering, the doubt, the pain and anguish?? We pray that THE HOLY FAMILY hears our prayers and brings us peace and comfort and healing soon. May God’s will be done. We ask all who read these words to share in our prayers, and also to continue to share with your relatives and friends our mission to FIND BILL through these various Social Media.

With love always, Your Family