Posted by Ken Pine The reason I am writing this is Mr Marquis is now around 88 years old, in bad health and about to lose his home. I spoke to him at length today, and he and his wife are in a very bad way. I work for BriteTop Roofing here in Fl and since I do not own the company, the best I can do is to build the roof at cost which is probably going to get me in a lot of trouble, maybe not. I am going to talk to my boss and see if I can do better, maybe my company can just give him a roof. His roof was pretty much destroyed in Hurricane Wilma last October. If anyone has any ideas how to help this hero, I will gladly field them and work with you to get this gent back to where he deserves to be. He is a very humble man in bad health. I am willing to open a bank account in his name for any donations that are offered. He really is a great man, he has lived in his house since approx 1968 and I really want to help him. Please believe this is not some sort of scheme, if you call me I can lay it all out and you can meet him if you like. I just want to help the man and his wife and at this point in time, I just don't have the resources to get done what needs to get done. These are wonderful folks that need help and I think we have all been there at some point in our lives. Again, my name is Ken Pine, my phone number is 786-728-2600 and I work for BriteTop Roofing in Homestead FL. I will take any and all suggestions and all help offered. Ken Pine --Previous Message--
on June 24, 2006, 7:33 pm, in reply to "Website used for instruction"
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Just a note to all. My name is Ken Pine, I am a roofing project manager in Homestead Fl. Tonite I was doing an estimate on a house in homestead and I was honored to meet Mr. Robert Marquis. I believe you all know who his is. He is the gentleman that in 1972 was in his boat in the everglades doing some "frogging", guess that means he was catching some frogs. He told me how he saw the plane crash, he was about 10 miles and 15 minutes from the site and how when he got to the site, it was horrible. He rescued an untold number of people from the plane, getting hurt in the process.
BriteTop Roofing
Homestead Fl
786-728-2600
: I am a Middle School teacher and I use an
: excerpt from the book as a reading
: assignment. The information contained on
: this website was instrumental in helping my
: students understand the tragedy of what
: happened that awful night. They were amazed
: that people still talk about the crash after
: all these years. My students and I would
: like to take this opportunity to offer our
: sincere condolences to all those who died.
: May they rest in peace.
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