Nearly two years ago, she was working inside her home, and her husband, a Tempe firefighter, was in the garage fixing his car. For only a moment, they lost sight of their 3-year old son as he played nearby, next to the family’s backyard swimming pool.
"You don’t hear a child drown----they call it the silent death," Letter said. "We were pretty cautious parents. We just didn’t think enouh that it could happen to us."
Weston Thomas Letter died on May 31, 1998. On Wednesday, Mesa Community College’s first Water Safety Day, which Duranne Letter was instrumental in organizing, will be held in his memory.
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