It’s as if Chris hears the same tune and lyrics — Eighteen dead in Kitsap County, four dead in Ohio. Eighty-three dead in Kitsap County, four dead in Ohio.

Now I’m wondering why our remaining Kitsap County Commissioners, Jan Angel and Tim Botkin, as well as our Kitsap County Public Works leaders, can’t see the vision, hear the music or sense the right thing to do.

Let’s agree with our easily offended fellow citizens and burdened Public Works workers. Seeing roadside memorials or maintaining them can be terrible, grisly, painful, sweaty, hard education.

And there’s more. Roadside memorials serve to show us that driving is a complicated human event and something went terribly wrong. They serve to teach us careful, cautious driving. They serve to remind us that if education or law enforcement doesn’t get us, then The Grim Reaper will.

Other information shows our Public Works leaders led us to believe no other counties had memorial sign policy. And other information shows our Washington State policy on memorial signs was not considered.

Maybe you see, as I see, something went terribly wrong with human events. This time it’s simple. It’s decision-making methods of our Kitsap County Public Works’ leaders and two of our Kitsap County Commissioners.

Maybe, they still have time to redeem themselves.

Gene David Hart
Bremerton.