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Posted on: Tuesday, July 8, 2008 Funeral services for Deputy Ben Boren announced I somehow got my motorcycle stopped a few feet from Mr. Boren when this tragic accident happened. I was the 4th. bike behind Donald Jackson. I tried everything to save this man, I did compressions, then looked at him and said outloud 'man I hate to do this' and I tried to breath life back into him. I typed his name into the browser yesterday and pages came up, tv stations, newspapers, etc. and today I'm starting to get some true and real feelings of who he was, what he stood for, and the important things to him. I pray God will give strength and comfort to all the family, friends, co workers, and loved ones during this time of grief and in days to come. Immediately after I got back into Lufkin the 4th. many from our church where gathered and we prayed the same as above. And then yesterday we had a funeral for Donald Jackson and his widow, his children, and the house full of teens he had just adopted all prayed for Mr. Boren's family and friends too, this sentence tells the kind of man Don was. He served in Nam, raised a family of upstanding kids, then adopted some more. His main concern the 4th was one of those he had just adopted that was riding with us. You see there was only 7 bikes riding together when this accident happened, but we had started out with another 18, but Don and I and four others kept getting behind between our stopping points because Don was "watching out for that boy" as he told me at our last rest stop not 5 minutes before he died. Two fine men died and only God knows why, neither was carelessly driving drunk, on hard drugs, or reckless, it was an accident pure and simple. Nathan Merritt Huntington, Tx.