Ceremony honors missing 8-year-old
Oregonian
Portland, Oregon
October 21, 2006
CRATER LAKE -- On a brilliant day when Crater Lake could display
its natural splendor, Sammy Boehlke's family gathered to show
their love for the missing 8-year-old.
Kirston Becker, Sammy's mother, told family members and others
that the point of the small ceremony Saturday in Crater Lake
National Park was to recognize that the formal search for her
son had come to an end.
"It has been an excruciating and horrific experience," Becker
said in a phone interview earlier in the day.
Then, she praised the bravery, kindness and humaneness of the
rescuers.
"We don't have resolution," she said. "Ambiguity is difficult,
but the land here is very beautiful, but nature takes away. It
looks like this time it took Sam."
The small group gathered about 11:30 a.m. at Cleetwood Cove on
Rim Drive, near the spot where Sammy was last seen Oct. 14. The
group included about a dozen family members, including two of
Sammy's aunts, and six Klamath Tribes ceremonial drummers.
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