{"id":8022,"date":"2023-10-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8022"},"modified":"2023-09-30T16:13:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T20:13:44","slug":"a-sad-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/a-sad-september\/","title":{"rendered":"A SAD SEPTEMBER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\u2019ve mentioned before in this space that I hate it when my blog looks like an obituary page. September 2023 is a case in point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elaine Frank<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Last month, we lost Elaine Frank, the retired head of the Injury Prevention unit in Hanover, NH. Elaine was the founder of the New Hampshire Firearms Safety Coalition. In the polarized debate of \u201cgun control,\u201d she was the only person I ever saw bring the two warring sides together in a productive ALLIANCE.  NHFSC began with pro-gun, anti-gun, and experts neutral on the issue who worked in suicide prevention and injury prevention. Working with Ralph Demicco, then the owner of the largest gun shop in NH, she created the Gun Shop Suicide Prevention program which educated firearms sellers on how to recognize suicidal ideation in a prospective customer. Their work saved many lives, and has been widely copied throughout the United States \u2013 often without attribution, unfortunately. I had known her, and been a proud member of NHFSC, since the \u201890s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Archie Silkworth photo by Higgins<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

September also saw the passing of Archie Silkworth. A part-time cop and full-time emergency medical service professional, he provided EMS services at my favorite match of all time, the Second Chance Shoot that began in the mid-\u201870s and morphed into the Pin Shoot in 2017 (www.pinshoot.com<\/a>).  Heart disease forced him into retirement but he still attended the tournament, and I had a chance to spend time with him at the match and after, last June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Abigail Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In August, we called in this blog for some help for Abigail Smith, age 15, whose mom and dad have done great work teaching firearms safety in Alaska. Born with a congenital heart defect that 30 years ago would have doomed her in infancy, this tough young daughter of good people made it well into September before accumulated medical issues overcame the doctors\u2019 best efforts. As they mourn Abigail\u2019s passing a few days ago, her parents are still swamped with massive medical bills and my deepest thanks go to those who donated to help out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve mentioned before in this space that I hate it when my blog looks like an obituary page. September 2023 is a case in point. Last month, we lost Elaine Frank, the retired head of the Injury Prevention unit in Hanover, NH. Elaine was the founder of the New Hampshire Firearms Safety Coalition. In the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8031,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022\/revisions\/8031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}