Miss you

Poems

Sun, 20 Jun 2004 15:30:12 GMT

.God sent you knowing everyone would love you
You were god's little gem.. you were my angel..
You said things that made people laugh..
i loved you so much..
but God wanted his angel back..*

.tears drip from my eyes as i look down at you
lying so peacefully
i want you to come back... i ask god everyday
i lay awake at night.. thinking how much of this is my fault
then i realize it wasnt ..
god has his reasons for everything..
God just wanted an angel to make him laugh.

Your gone
never comming back
i finally realized it
when i was grasping your old hat
that terrible day
when god took you away
you were only 14
had so many more years to live
you were supposed to grow up
and have kids
to grow until you hair turned gray
none of that will happen now
this isnt the right way
id give anything to bring you back
my dear friend
but for now i guess this is goodbye

   Gone..thats what you are
          truely missed..thats what you are
              My angel..thats what you are

Sometimes i sit alone in my room
crying my eyes out thinkin of you
your gone now..and are truely missed
your my angel with golden wings..

Thinking back..

Sun, 20 Jun 2004 15:15:13 GMT

Thinking back to the hotel last july, i remember the first time i talked to you.. i couldnt stop laughing, here is this barely 5 ft. tall boy holding back his entire lacrosse team from getting into his hotel room just so he could be alone with me and tiffani, it was so funny, but truthfully, cal never stopped making us laugh he was always in the best mood and he always knew what to say and when to say it.. Late at night all i think about is cal..

and how when it rains and you step outside and feel the drops on your face..
cal will never again
How when you listen to that brand new song on the radio
cal never will
How when the LI lacrosse team wins a game
cal never will again
How when you laugh and cry and hang out with your friends
cal never will...

I know that cal is watching over all his loved ones.. and i hope cal is watching over me.. because he is my angel.. the one who saved me from sadness..

News Paper Articles

Sun, 20 Jun 2004 15:09:56 GMT

October 8, 2003 -- A fishing trip for three 14-year-old boys ended in tragedy when their canoe capsized in Long Island Sound and one of them drowned, police said yesterday.

Twin brothers Alfred and Calvin Kohart and their friend Charles Hoeg, paddled out 100 yards from Wading River Beach at 2 p.m. Monday - a day off from school because of Yom Kippur.

Police said the canoe overturned and the boys' heavy clothing became soaked with water, weighing them down. Alfred Kohart and Charles were nearly at shore by the time help arrived, but Calvin was unable swim far.

He began to sink about 100 yards from shore. Construction worker Gerald Dean, who saw the accident, dived in and tried to rescue the boys, but ran into trouble. Other rescuers pulled them all to shore with a rope.

Paramedics administered CPR, but Calvin did not respond and was declared dead at a local hospital.

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'God Needed Another Angel'
Youth remembered as tough and loving

Written on Calvin Kohart's locker at Shoreham-Wading River High School was a simple message: I miss you.

"We love you," another student wrote. "God needed another angel."

Soon, there was no more room on the steel locker door, and the messages spilled over onto the adjacent wall, and the wall space next to it.

"Calvin was a great kid," said Bernard Thomas, principal of the high school. "A loss like this is hard to recover from."

That was the predominant sentiment here in this tight-knit community Tuesday, a day after Calvin drowned when a canoe he was in capsized in Wading River.

His twin brother, Alfred, and their friend Charles Hoeg, 14, were also in the Koharts' family boat about 100 yards offshore, but were able to make it back to dry land. Calvin was pulled to shore with a rope but was pronouced dead at Central Suffolk Hospital in Riverhead shortly after the 2 p.m. incident.

Many of the 200 or so students in the ninth grade came up from grade school with Calvin and some of them stayed home or excused themselves from class Tuesday. The school offered counseling throughout the day, and about 50 students sought help, Thomas said.

Tuesday, friends and family gathered at the Koharts' waterfront home on Oak Road to remember the boy many called "Cal."

So deep was David and Denise Kohart's grief that all the couple could do when a reporter knocked on the door was to ask for more time to "do their son right."

So it was up to fellow parishoners of St. Anselm's Church, where Calvin was altar boy, and close friends on Calvin's lacrosse team to talk about the boy they say was tough yet kind, loving and sensitive, but above all full of humor and life.

"Calvin has a zest for life," said Paul Jendrewski, athletic director of the high school who has known the family since his daughter, Kaylin, 14, and the twins went to St. Anselm's nursery school together. "Cal always made you laugh. He really knew how to get to the adults."

At lacrosse games, Jendrewski said, Calvin would strike up a conversation with the referee before the game. "He would say, 'Oh, you're looking good today. You lost a few pounds?'" Jendrewski recalled. "He worked the crowd. He had that special flair ... He was an excellent goalie even though he just reached five feet."

His toughness and skill, his teammates on the youth lacrosse team say, was so inspirational that it would encourage them to work harder even when they were behind.

Friends said Calvin, the team jokester, recently began to focus harder on schoolwork because he had decided to apply to Princeton University, which has a Division I lacrosse team.

The youth team was founded by the twins' father, who co-coached with Charles Hoeg's father. The team, named "Koho" after the two coaches, traveled frquently to play in out-of-town games and recently won a tournament in Kentucky, teammates said.

On one recent away game, Brett Drost, 14, recalled, rolls of toilet paper were missing from the hotel rooms. "Right away, we all knew it was him."

Friends remember that despite their closeness, Calvin and his fraternal twin brother Alfred were different in several ways. While Calvin was outgoing and funny, Alfred is reserved and quiet. When Calvin teased Alfred, older by 19 minutes, Alfred would restrain himself, not taking the bait.

But they did share a love of playing paintball with friends, watching movies and canoeing in their backyard in Wading River.

The affinity was shared by dozens of friends back at school, as they continued to express similar thoughts on Calvin's locker.

"I've known you since we were three & you've never changed," Kaylin Jendrewski wrote in big permanent marker. "You were always funny and brought a smile
upon us ... God needed an angel to make him laugh."

..Cal..

Sun, 20 Jun 2004 15:06:02 GMT

What really is the right thing to say? There are endless words to describe you..from the first time i saw you at the hotel in springfield where you were stayin for a lacrosse tournament, i knew there was something special about you..after getting to know you i learned what it was.. you were an angel.. Since the night at the hotel we became bestfriends, i dont think i went a day with out talking to you, the only thing i remember before the accident was you comming online on sunday and telling me how we were gunna see eachother again when you came back in july, (since its hard to see eachother when you live in 2 different states). that was the last time i talked to you.. When i heard about the accident i didnt believe it, it never really struck me why god would want someone so special as calvin, but i finally get it now

~God wanted an angel to make him laugh~

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