" LOVE STARTS WITH A SMILE, GROWS WITH A KISS AND ENDS WITH A TEARDROP "
I AM HAPPY TO REPORT
AS OF JULY 26, 2006 THE MAN INVOLVED IN BRUCE'S MURDER PLEAD GUILTY TO INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER AND RECEIVED 10 YEARS FOR THAT CRIME AND ALSO PLEAD GUILTY TO TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE AND RECEIVED 4 YEARS FOR THAT CRIME. HE HAS NO CHANCE OF PAROLL OR EARLY RELEASE. HE WILL NOT BE ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLL UNTILL NOVEMBER 2019.
AS OF SEPTEMBER 27, 2006 THE WOMAN INVOLVED IN BRUCE'S MURDER HAD A TRIAL AND WAS FOUND GUILTY OF FELONIOUS ASSAULT AND RECEIVED 8 YEARS FOR THAT CRIME AND WAS FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER AND RECEIVED 15 YEARS TO LIFE FOR THAT CRIME. SHE WILL NOT BE ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLL UNTIL MAY 2021.
ALL THOUGH THIS WILL NEVER BRING BRUCE BACK TO US IT FEELS GOOD TO FINALLY SEE THESE MURDERERS SERVING TIME FOR THEIR CRIMES. AND TO KNOW THEY ARE NOT WALKING AROUND FREE.....MAYBE WE CAN SOMEHOW TRY TO MOVE ON AND LET BRUCE LIVE ON WITH US THROUGH OUR MEMORIES AND LOVE FOR HIM.
WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOU BRUCE!!!!!!
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PLEASE VISIT THE MURDER VICTIMS MEMORIAL WALL
BRUCE'S NAME IS ON THE MURDER VICTIMS VIRTUAL MEMORIAL WALL.
www.we-remember-them.com
www.murdervictimsmemorialwall.com
VISIT THE PARENTS OF MURDERED CHILDREN SITE:
(IT IS FOR ANYONE WHO LOST A LOVED ONE TO A VIOLENT CRIME)
THERE IS ALOT OF GOOD INFORMATION ON THIS SITE
www.pomc.org (NATIONAL WEBSITE)
www.pomc-centralohio.org (CENTRAL OHIO CHAPTER)
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This memorial website was created to remember our dearest Sivilay "Bruce" Sengkeophainh who was born in Lao People's Democratic Republic on October 8, 1970 and passed away on August 5, 2005.
Bruce was taken from us way before his time, because of a senseless act of violence...... Bruce had to leave behind 5 of the most beautiful children in the world.
Bruce was the best friend that you could ever want to have, He would go out of his way to do anything that his friends and family asked of him.
Could you imagine leaving your home, family and friends behind to go half way around the world to live, and then to lose your father. Bruce was 13 years old when his father died and was 34 when he died, but he never forgot his father, he talked about him, all the time, and maybe how different his life may have been if he had been here. Now bruce's children half to live out their lives without him....
I hope none of them ever forget him, and will always remember that he loved everyone of them more than anything in the world........
THIS SITE WAS MADE TO HONOR BRUCE"S LIFE.....
And to remember what we lost....and to never let his children forget him....Bruce was a great person, and didn't deserve the hand that he was delt.....
I will always remember all the good and bad times we shared you will live on in my heart forever Bruce..... I Love You.....
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"STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN"
WE WERE JUST BEGINING TO LIVE OUR LIVES TOGETHER, WHEN GOD CALLED ON YOU TO CLIMB THAT STAIWAY TO HEAVEN.
I BEGGED GOD NOT TO TAKE YOU, BUT HE SAID YOU COULD NOT STAY. YOUR LIFE HAD BEEN FILLED WITH STRIFE AND YOU WERE TIRED AND WEARY FROM THE FIGHT.
I BEGGED AND PLEADED WITH YOU NOT TO GO, BUT YOU JUST SMILED AND WALKED AWAY. I SCREAMED AND YELLED FOR YOU TO COME BACK, BUT YOU JUST KEPT WALKING TOWARD THAT STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN.
I LOOKED UP AND SAW SO MANY FAMILIAR FACES WAITING THERE TO GREET YOU, AND A SMILE SPREAD ACROSS MY TEAR STAINED FACE.
ALL THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS THAT HAD PASSED ON BEFORE YOU, HAD ALL CAME TO WALK YOU UP THAT STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN...AT THAT MOMENT I KNEW YOU WOULD BE ALRIGHT.
PLEASE TAKE CARE OF BRUCE TIL I GET THERE...........
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HAVE YOU EVER HAD THAT FEELING,
WHEN SOMEONE CLOSE TO YOU WAS DYING?
THE UNEASY FEELING YOU GET IN YOUR SOUL,
YOUR MIND SINKING INTO AN EMPTY HOLE.
THAT'S THE FEELING,
WHEN SOMEONE CLOSE TO YOU IS DYING.
YOU TOSS AND TURN ALL NIGHT,
TILL THE MORNING'S FIRST LIGHT.
NOT KNOWING THAT SOMETHING WAS WRONG.
YOUR HEAD HURTS ALL DAY.
YOU JUST CAN'T SEEM TO THINK STRAIGHT,
YOU HAVE THAT BLANK STARE ON YOUR FACE.
PEOPLE ASK YOU "WHAT'S WRONG?"
YOU ANSWER " I DON'T KNOW..."
THAT'S THE FEELING,
WHEN SOMEONE CLOSE TO YOU IS DYING.
YOU JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING,
BUT YOUR HEART-
AND YOUR SOUL DOES.
YOU CAN FEEL IT DEEP INSIDE.
SOONER OR LATER
SOMEONE CALLS,
TELLING YOU UNEASILY
THE TRAJIC NEWS
AS THEIR VOICE STALLS.
YOU NOW KNOW WHAT THAT WAS,
THAT SENSE
THAT FEELING.
YOUR HEARTS, YOUR SOULS,
SEEMED TO BE,
INTERTWINED AS ONE,
AND, WHEN THEIRS STOPPED-
YOU KNEW.
THAT'S THE FEELING,
WHEN SOMEONE CLOSE TO YOU
IS DYING.........
UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN....
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" DEATH "
DEATH STOLE MY ONLY LOVE,
IT DIDN'T LET ME SAY GOODBYE,
SO IN THIS WORLD THAT KILLED YOU, I SIT ALONE AND CRY.
A POINTLESS EVENT, THAT OFTEN DOES OCCUR,
IT STOLE MY ONLY LOVE.
I SAY FOR DEATH THERE IS NO CURE.
YOUR BIG BROWN EYES I STILL SO OFTEN SEE.
BUT NOW YOUR GONE AND ALL THAT'S LEFT IS ME.
BUT I WILL NOT ABANDON HOPE,
I WILL ENDURE THIS PAIN,
I WILL SURVIVE THIS CRUEL WORLD,
ALONE AND FULL OF VAIN.
SO WHEN I LEAVE THIS FILTHY PLACE
WITH ENEMIES AND HATE,
I WILL UNITE WITH YOU MY LOVE,
FOR THAT IS OUR FATE.......
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THIS POEM IS DEDICATED TO JULIE, BRANDON, JOSHUA, JUSTIN & CAMERON.
"NEVER ALONE" BY: RODNEY BELCHER
I FEEL YOU IN THE MORNING
WHEN AT FIRST I AWAKE
YOUR THOUGHT IS WITH ME
WITH EACH DECISION I MAKE.
YOU'D BEEN AROUND FOREVER
SINCE THE FIRST BREATH I TOOK
NOW I HAVE TO GO ON ALONE.
BUT FOR LOVE, I NEED NOT LOOK.
CAUSE BY WHAT YOU BESTOWED
IN OUR SHORT TIME TOGETHER
WILL LAST IN MY HEART
FOREVER AND EVER.
ALTHOUGH YOU'VE LEFT
AND NOW WALK ABOVE
I'M NEVER ALONE
I'M WRAPPED IN YOUR LOVE.
ENJOY NOW YOUR LONG AWAITED REWARD
FEEL PEACE THAT YOUR LOVE CONTINUES ON
WHAT WAS TAUGHT TO ME, WILL BE TAUGHT TO MINE
CAUSE YOU LIVE ON IN ME EVEN AFTER YOU'VE GONE.
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THINGS HAVEN'T BEEN THE SAME SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE.
FOR A WHILE I WONDERED HOW I'D CARRY ON.
THE EMPTINESS INSIDE IT ACHES ALL THE TIME.
THAT IS THE REASON FOR THIS RHYME.
WHEN I HEARD THE NEWS I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO.
IT HAPPENED SO SUDDENLY, IT JUST COULDN'T BE TRUE.
THEY SAID YOU'D PASSED ON, AND YOU WEREN'T COMING HOME.
YOU'D GONE TO HEAVEN, WHERE YOUR SOUL COULD ROAM.
I CRIED ALL DAY, AND I CRIED ALL NIGHT.
I SAY I'M OKAY, BUT I'M NOT QUITE ALRIGHT.
HOW CAN I PRETEND, THAT I'M NOT STILL IN PAIN,
AND WIPE AWAY THE TEARS, THAT FALL LIKE RAIN.
I'LL REMEMBER THAT DAY, THE DAY THAT WE MEET,
AND YOUR SMILING FACE, I WILL NEVER FORGET.
THIS IS MY PROMISE, A VOW I'LL KEEP EVERMORE:
YOU'LL BE IN MY HEART, UNTIL I REACH HEAVEN'S SHORES.
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DON'T HESITATE TO LIGHT A CANDLE FOR BRUCE BEFORE YOU LEAVE.
IF YOU HAVE ANY MEMORIES OF BRUCE THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE PLEASE DO SO, IN THE SHARED MEMORIES SECTION.
IF YOU HAVE A CONDOLENCE OR A COMMENT PLEASE LEAVE THEM IN THE CONDOLENCE SECTION.
I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE THAT HAS KEPT US IN THEIR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS, THRU THIS TRAJEDY.
CHECK BACK OFTEN, THIS SITE IS ALWAYS BEING UPDATED.