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Friends of Dan Zamlen plan to return home to Minnesota's Iron Range this weekend to say goodbye to the Eveleth native whose body was pulled from the Mississippi River.

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THE Radest Rethuglican

“Puppet At State Fair”

Since: Mar 09

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Nowthen, MN

ISP: Saint Paul, MN

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He sounded like a nice kid and my condolences to his family and friends

St_Pauly_Girl

Since: Mar 08

414

St. Paul

ISP: Minneapolis, MN

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so very sorry for this family's loss, & to all the students who lost their friend.

Ken

Farmington, MN

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He was a minor who knew the risks and dangers and simply did not care and paid a price

not me

Saint Paul, MN

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Ken wrote:

He was a minor who knew the risks and dangers and simply did not care and paid a price

He's a kid...and you're an ass!

mudduck

Manchester, CT

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Ken wrote:

He was a minor who knew the risks and dangers and simply did not care and paid a price

What a horrible, insensitive thing to say. We were all kids once, and this family is suffering terribly.

Scott

Hopkins, MN

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mudduck wrote:

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What a horrible, insensitive thing to say. We were all kids once, and this family is suffering terribly.

The truth hurts doesnt it. Underage drinking, diabetic. I hope whoever provided the booze gets charged with murder.

tired

Onamia, MN

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I guess Scott and Ken never left their mom's house when they were kids. You guys must be so perfect you never did anything wrong

This and that

Saint Paul, MN

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tired wrote:

I guess Scott and Ken never left their mom's house when they were kids. You guys must be so perfect you never did anything wrong

Although the poster's comments were insensitive, there is a great deal of truth in what he said. Yes, kids experiment with drugs and alcohol, and some parents see this as a necessary right of passage or a learning point for young adults to go through.

But, everybody, kids included, knows drinking can cause huge problems. Today's children, unlike me and my friends, receive this information through mandatory high school health classes, and TV ads that encourage people to drink responsibly. Moreover, there has been plenty of news coverage about college binge drinking, and stories of teens and young 20 somethings found in rivers as a result of drinking in the wrong place and at the wrong time.

It is painfully tragic that this kid's life was cut short simply because he chose to ignore the risks before him. Rather than bash the kid or make excuses for him, let's use his death as a means of reinforcing and strengthening a greater message to our college kids - alcohol is not merely a right of passage; it is a chance to do the right thing and to heed sensible warnings before tragedy occurs.

my thoughts and prayers

Saint Paul, MN

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are with his family and friends. I cried like a baby saturday morning when I saw the paper. It's a crying shame and a waste of a wonderful life.

Compassion on this site isn't what it could be, that's for sure.

DEXTER

Saint Paul, MN

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Sounds like there is a serial killer lurking. Appears to be looking for drunk college aged white males. Hmmmmm..... How many deaths matching this MO have been pulled out of the Mississippi or in a river ???

mudduck

Manchester, CT

This and that wrote:

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Although the poster's comments were insensitive, there is a great deal of truth in what he said. Yes, kids experiment with drugs and alcohol, and some parents see this as a necessary right of passage or a learning point for young adults to go through.
But, everybody, kids included, knows drinking can cause huge problems. Today's children, unlike me and my friends, receive this information through mandatory high school health classes, and TV ads that encourage people to drink responsibly. Moreover, there has been plenty of news coverage about college binge drinking, and stories of teens and young 20 somethings found in rivers as a result of drinking in the wrong place and at the wrong time.
It is painfully tragic that this kid's life was cut short simply because he chose to ignore the risks before him. Rather than bash the kid or make excuses for him, let's use his death as a means of reinforcing and strengthening a greater message to our college kids - alcohol is not merely a right of passage; it is a chance to do the right thing and to heed sensible warnings before tragedy occurs.

Sometimes it's not so much what you say as how you say it. And perhaps neither one have never lived through losing a child, adult or otherwise.

Scott

Hopkins, MN

tired wrote:

I guess Scott and Ken never left their mom's house when they were kids. You guys must be so perfect you never did anything wrong

I did leave the house. And I am still alive today because I made ill-advised decisions. Not STUPID decisions.

redqueen

Minneapolis, MN

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Lots of assumptions here. Yes, he was drinking and diabetic, but until more facts are known, no one knows whether those conditions contributed to this tragic loss. Please have a little compassion for him and for the family and friends of this beloved young man.

mudduck

Manchester, CT

redqueen wrote:

Lots of assumptions here. Yes, he was drinking and diabetic, but until more facts are known, no one knows whether those conditions contributed to this tragic loss. Please have a little compassion for him and for the family and friends of this beloved young man.

Amen.

St_Pauly_Girl

Since: Mar 08

414

St. Paul

ISP: Minneapolis, MN

Scott wrote:

<quoted text>I did leave the house. And I am still alive today because I made ill-advised decisions. Not STUPID decisions.

your a jerk!!!!!!!

St_Pauly_Girl

Since: Mar 08

414

St. Paul

ISP: Minneapolis, MN

Scott wrote:

<quoted text>I did leave the house. And I am still alive today because I made ill-advised decisions. Not STUPID decisions.

A perfect jerk

St_Pauly_Girl

Since: Mar 08

414

St. Paul

ISP: Minneapolis, MN

Ken wrote:

He was a minor who knew the risks and dangers and simply did not care and paid a price

Your a jerk as well, & he was an adult, it was a few days before his 19th birthday. How can you say he would know that he could fall off a cliff that night & die?

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