Herb Larkins update

125th Street Gang · April 18, 2006

I will try to get the pictures here posted.I have to have my son do it.Since I'm paying $16,000 a yr for him at East Carolina Univ and his major is computers..he'll do it

Herb called me Sunday nite.Again he thanks everyone.I have to write Billy and get more info.Herb hasn't got out of his bed since Jan.He has these sores he's fighting and there from the inside.They come and take x-rays of him and the doctor is watching them closely.

He said the TV and sound system are great.He still hasn't mounted it on the wall yet.There was a problem with his wall or the brakets they sent.

I look at these pictures of him and sometimes cannot comprehend the incident that happened in Denton,Tx in 1970.I'm a 19 yr old kid at the time and never could imagine something like this could happen.It's 35 or 36 yrs later and when I look at the pictures of him out in his neighborhood in Queens everything seems so nice.

He wants to thank everyone but doesn't know how to.He said a day has not gone by where his eyes don't water up thinking of those days back in decemeber and january when these letters started arriving.

I looked at Billy E in the backround of those pictures.he is the true hero of this story. He has been at Herbs side since the day of the accident.He was only at North Texas on a b-ball scholarship because of Herb.Billy like me married a Texan and came back to live in NY.His two sons are lawyers in NYC and his wife has now been striken with multiple sclerosis and in a wheel chair.

Like Billy said a month or two ago to me..the 2 most important people in my life other them my kids are in wheelchairs.

Billy graduated from North Texas and is currently the highest nonjudicial employee in the NYC Court System.Only the judges have more props them him.He has taken care of Herb with the help of herbs mother.

So when you look at that guy behind Herb its hard to believe the friendship and love of those two that has never stopped.In this day and age when so many terrible things are happening in the headlines around the world it's nice to know about a small story in Queens,NY that has effected someones life.

You all here that became guardians are a chapter in both Herb and Billy's life.I know many of you give me a lot of credit by doing this.And i do apprecaite it but like i said a 1,000 times..all i was...was the messenger. GoMeangreen and the other places that let me post Herb's story were the stamps that sent the message.You people that stuck a few dollars in an envelope blindly and sent them to him are the heroes.

Calvin Coolidge once said

" No person was ever honored for what he recieved.Honor has been the reward for what he gave"

_ Over $3,000 was sent to Herb.The pitures will show you his flat screen TV

eulesseagle · April 18, 2006

Tony,

Thanks for the update. Let me know if you ever run into "Lew" again.

125th Street Gang · April 19, 2006

Tony,
Thanks for the update. Let me know if you ever run into "Lew" again.
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125th Street Gang · April 19, 2006

Euss..sory i messed up the response.I'll get herbs pictures up in a few days.How's lew? lol god that is funny.My daughter is getting married down in austin on may 27th.Couldn't invite lew and many of my NT boys. But Robbie G a good friend of Lew will be there.Not sure if you knew Robbie G.He teaches in Garland. I feel bad about not inviting so many of my friends that still live down there but we can have only 150 people and my daughter has been teaching in austin for almost 5 yrs now.Plus the 4 yrs at UT.So she has a big list of her own friends.Plus her husband is from Corpus..

The pictures of herb are pretty powerful.I'm amazed that so few people here never heard of the larkins story. I look back on my days at NT with great memories.Met my wife dribbling a basketball imitating Pistol Pete outside of kerr hall one summer.1st date was to lake Dallas...she was in bruce hall. no AC.it was so hot that summer.I had to go to summer school because i failed Dr Lott's anatomy class.If i didn't go to summer school i would of never met my wife.I failed on purpose..lol Now 35 yrs later,have 4 kids and my oldest is getting married.

I'll find out about Lew at the wedding.Can't believe he doesn't come here in gomeangreen..I'll tell Robby to tell him.take care..and thanks for believing in the begining...i did a pretty poor job explaining about herb and some questioned me. but that all worked out..