My brother, Beau, attends school in Shawnee, Oklahoma. He is a 4.0 honor student and president of his class. He plays football, basketball, baseball, and wrestles. He is "Mr. Popular" amongst his fellow classmates, but on February 5, 1999 this would all change.

Beau was wrestling at a tournament in Sulfur, Oklahoma on February 5, 1999. He had made it to the championship match later that evening. The match was going well. Beau was ahead 5 to 3 until disaster struck. Billy Thompson, the person my brother was wrestling, had Beau in a headlock. Beau then put his foot behind Billy's feet in order to trip him, but Billy held on. My brother landed on the top of his head b

After Beau broke his neck, Beau got a lot of sympathy for family and friends. As time grew on, since he couldn't do anything, his friends grew apart from him. They kind of cased him aside and he was left all alone. The once "Mr. Popular" was not the person who sat at home a grieved for himself. Society cased him out and he felt like the smallest person on the earth. His attitude went down the drain and he went into a state of depression. He never wanted to go outside in fear of being made fun of. He basically went into a shell and almost never came out. This was caused, in part, due to American culture. Our culture, nowadays, loves sports. The next generation is brought up loving sports. Beau grew up loving wrestling knowing the risk and the probiblity of him, or anyone in that matter, of getting injured. Americans love sports weather its football, baseball, hockey, or any American sport. We all know that injuries occur in sports, but yet we still play them due to our culture

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