[Hank 91]

It seems there was a conscious effort to make this more of a memorial than simply a statement of the facts, and I appreciated it. In fact, I'd much rather read something like this than details or conjectures about what happened. As a parent -- and I can't believe I'm typing these words -- I would appreciate a statement like this. Say what you will about the "Stanford family," but I feel that I'm part of it. I understand that on its surface this is billion-dollar organization, but I appreciated reading about this student and learning something about him, and I think it's okay that they went in this direction with this statement.

[Hank 91]

It seems there was a conscious effort to make this more of a memorial than simply a statement of the facts, and I appreciated it. In fact, I'd much rather read something like this than details or conjectures about what happened. As a parent -- and I can't believe I'm typing these words -- I would appreciate a statement like this. Say what you will about the "Stanford family," but I feel that I'm part of it. I understand that on its surface this is billion-dollar organization, but I appreciated reading about this student and learning something about him, and I think it's okay that they went in this direction with this statement.