This is a very touching story. A boy threw a bottle in a lake, with a message in it, over eleven years ago. The bottle turned up eleven years later, and one year after his death. Read the story…
ANTIGO, WIS. — Years after casting a bottled-up note
into a lake for a class project and just one year after his death, a
man’s childhood message has been found and returned to his mother.Eleven
years ago, a then 10-year-old Joshua Baker wrote the message nestled in
an empty vanilla container, his mother, Maggie Holbrook said. He died
last February following a motor vehicle accident in California. He had
recently returned home after serving in the Middle East as a U.S.
Marine."I think he was just letting us know he was OK and to keep doing what we are doing," Holbrook said.
The
message surfaced in White Lake in late April, just days after the 11th
anniversary of its casting. It was found by one of Baker’s closest
friends, Steve Lieder, of Antigo, she said. Lieder and two friends were
chatting near the lake when they looked down and saw the bottle. They
broke it open and found the note inside:"My name is Josh Baker. I am 10. If you find this put it on the news. The date is 4/16/95."
They immediately took it to Holbrook, who said she is now having the note preserved and will display it in her home.
She
can remember when her son wrote the message for the school project. She
said she always wondered why they didn’t put it in the nearby Wolf
River, which has a much stronger current."I still remember the
day he wrote it," Holbrook said. "I couldn’t understand why they threw
it in the lake. No one would ever see it again. Now I know."
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