None of you knows this man, but I do. While not close friends, I'd still consider him an friend. He and I attended the same congregation at church until some very recent boundary changes. I sat by him several times. He has a wife and two very young daughters. I am saddened by this news, and I don't really want it to be a political discussion. It's just always different when you read about it happening to someone in some place you've never heard of and when it happens to someone you actually know.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/2012/10/02/border-patrol-agent-shot-killed-patrol-ariz/6lgBUZoNLhk5YlpLCuRnhO/story.html

God be with the Ivie family, and goodbye Nick. Families are forever.