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Article: Illinois -- Community consoles family who lost 6-year-old; Lawyer: Plane's thrust reversers `not deactivated quickly enough'
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- The Sun - Naperville (IL)
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- December 12, 2005
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Their faces battered and their souls weary, the Woods family sought refuge Sunday at church.
Three days after a Southwest Airlines jet plowed through a Midway Airport fence and landed on the Indiana family's car -- killing their 6-year-old son, Joshua -- Leroy and Lisa Woods were warmly welcomed at Bethel Baptist Church in Crown Point, Ind.
"The whole church just embraced them," the Rev. Steve DeWitt said. "There were lots of tears cried with them."
The trauma is just starting to sink in. A son who survived the accident, 4-year-old Jacob, is experiencing night terrors, "screaming in the middle of the night, `Let me out! Let me out!'" a family lawyer, Ronald A. Stearney Jr., said.
Stearney ...