"Saving Carrick" ran again on MSNBC last night. We did not know it until the emails started rolling in after it was over. One of them was from Connie, whose daughter Cheryl Dean is memorialized at the Our Wall website. She's the eleventh name down in the second column.

"I still visit my daughter everday in the nursing home in upstate New York," Connie wrote in an email. "That is where they sent her." And in a post script, she wrote: "My daughter didn't get a second chance like your daughter Carrick."

I remember coming across this site several years ago. I filed it deep in my memory. It is painful to read. But we should. One of the main reasons I started writing Elephant on Main Street several years ago was to tell the stories of some kids in our village who had their stories cut short.

I don't know how anyone could read Our Wall and not be affected. We on this site know all too well that anyone of these sons, daughters, sisters, brothers, mothers, fathers, loved ones and friends could be us, or our loved ones.