Original Message

Hard to believe that this was 60 years ago. It is a day I will never forget as I watched it live on close circuit at the Lincoln Theatre. I had just seen him and everyone at Trenton just weeks before and couldn't believe what I was watching on that screen. Then to make the day even worse I come home to hear the my hero Fireball Roberts was near death after his wreck at Charlotte only to die a few weeks later. Back in 2001 I met a nurse who was Fireballs nurse who told me about how they didn't understand how he lived that long as injuries and burns were the worst they had ever seen. I think about these guys often in the month of May and remember how this day almost got me to stop going to the races .