Real life beat Hollywood to the finish line at the 73rd Annual All-American Soap Box Derby on Saturday. With actor-director Corbin Bernsen filming the movie "Hill 25," based on the Soap Box Derby, 14-year-old Sean Brown rolled to victory in the Rally Super Stock Division in a way that no script writer ever imagined.
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Seeded on Sat Jul 24, 2010 9:22 PM EDT (NBC Sports)
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Great story. Congratulation Sean.
Bravo Sean and Carol Anne.
Our prayers and sympathies for your tragic loss, yet our congratulations in your victory as a family.
Death is never easy, especially in this instance. Your love for Carol Anne will never fade, as well as hers for you.
Congrats to Sean & family! It's nice to read a good human interest story amid the usual gloom & doom.
Wonderful story. Thanks for sharing something like that.
What a great human-interest story. Congratulations to the family and for bringing awareness to a devestating illness.
A beautiful story and I am so happy for the family. One thing though, putting the sister's ashes in the cart and at the start and finish lines is a bit over the top. I feel her name on the side of the cart would have been honor enough. Please don't get angry because of my feelings - I'm a Christian so it is not a religious thing. Just a bit strange.
Every person and family grieves in its own way. I too am a Christian and I find nothing odd about this. It's certainly not what I might do, but then I didn't know Carol Anne.
I am really happy for that family. I agree with Ellie about the ashes, but everyone grieves in their own way. If that helps the family cope with such a terrible happening, then I don't have a problem with it.
Neat story. I wondered also about the ashes; do they carry a zip-loc bag around with them? I'm not being mean, I don't think - we have our son's ashes after he committed suicide (three years ago today, in fact). Keeping them in an urn in a mausoleum so far, but my will includes instructions for my ashes to be scattered in a meaningful place.
"meaningful place."
They did. That's that.
Judging from the above postings regarding the scattering of ashes, I suspect that most of you would not agree with where my brothers ashes were scattered. But guess what - I don't care if you would approve or not. I was honoring my brother's last wish by scattering his ashes exactly where he had requested. Without getting into details, where he wanted his ashes scattered was a place where permission would never have been granted; so I did not ask, I simply did it in a dignified manner to honor my beloved brother. Quite honestly, I probably could have been arrested if caught. However, I wasn't and at no time did I have one moment of hesitation in carrying out his last request. It caused no harm to anyone and it was the business of no one outside the members of the immediate family. Rest in peace, Brother!