this is where you hear the theme to twilight zone in your head...

So I didn't get allot of sleep last night, too many things swirling in my head... this morning I got up early (7ish) and although should have gone to run/walk I didn't I decided I'd look through Ben's old photo albums and came across this...

its not that I didn't know those clippings were in there, I have seen them and even read them a dozen or more times.. they are the obituary and articles about William "Brad" Rusche

Brad and Ben at his Mission Open House 1993

Ben and Brad were on the Varsity Soccer Team together, Ben was Sweeper (right in front of the Goalie on the Defensive line) and Brad was just in front of him Stopper, I'm sure I've screwed up that mental image just know they had each other's back on and OFF the field... and that is why we named OUR Brad after him...

While Ben was on his mission in Wisconsin he got word that Brad had passed away suddenly from what they think was a heart attack.
he had to quit the Cal Poly Pomona soccer team due to a heart arrhythmia and some heart symptoms he was having.  (yes my cousins who went to Brea O Linda he is the one the monument is for on the stadium field)..
there is no way of knowing if what he had and died from is even remotely close to what OUR Brad is going through being diagnosed with but the similarities are a little spooky.. the thing we would be most worried of in our Brad's case is "Sudden Cardiac Death"...

another kind of spooky thing is we've always commented a bit on how much our Brad kind of looked like Brad Rusche, tall skinny with blonde hair, also Brad R was so fast I mean when he got going you didn't want to be in his way.. very much like our Brad.. like I said.. if I didn't know this to be completely true I would think I was reading a novel!!...

So there are my thoughts this morning as scattered as they may be... I have thought allot about finding Brad Rusche's parents, Ben's family didn't know them VERY well but of coarse they/we saw them and visited at every soccer game I had even been to their home a few times such nice people.. I've done a couple of Internet searches but have come up dry so far and even if I did find them what would I even say to them.. who knows.. we'll see where that goes...

am I the only one who is hearing the twilight zone music about now.???