It’s impossible not to feel badly today for the families of the eight murdered men, whose bodies were discovered five years ago today.
Here’s a copy of Boxer Muscedere’s obit, which is running in the Windsor and Toronto Star. When I was sent to cover this story by the Toronto Star, the men were just a collection of names. Now I can see them as people and people with loving families. I was amazed to learn of Boxer’s courage: he stood up to a Nazi-lover with a loaded gun to defend a Jewish man he considered a brother. And then he laughed at the Nazi-lover rather than join him. It’s courage by any standards and while his family grieves his loss, their pride is palpable.