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Article: Battered Ind. family turns to church: Trauma of losing boy in Midway crash taking its toll
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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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," said the Rev. Steve DeWitt.
"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!' " said a family
lawyer, Ronald A. Stearney Jr.
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