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Behind every drunk driving statistic is a person whose life was full of family and friends, love and life, joy and laughter. Collectively, they are mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, friends, neighbors and co-workers. Their lives touched so many and they will never be forgotten. MADD’s Online Victim/Survivor Tribute honors and remembers those killed or injured in a drunk driving crash.
Please visit our online tribute to learn about some of the beloved victims as told by their family and friends. Simply click the link below to visit the tribute. You can search the tributes by the victim’s last name, home state, age or gender.
If you would like to post a tribute, please click the link below to be taken to the online tribute instructions.
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The MADD Victims Tribute is dedicated to the memory of James David Shaver of Houston, Texas and the University of Texas at Austin. James died in a drunk driving crash in 1971 after attending a summer fraternity party.
When I was in my 20's, I thought Jimmy had merely been unlucky, which he was. When I was in my 30's, I thought Jimmy had been foolish to drive after drinking, which he was.
But when I was in my 40's, I realized that Jimmy had been misled by all of us -- the alcohol industry, the fraternity culture, and we, his friends -- to think that being young and having fun means drinking alcohol.
I miss you, Jimmy.
–William DeJong, Harvard School of Public Health
MADD Board of Directors, 1993-1996
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