See the old man with the kindly eyes? There’s nothing kindly about them. And there’s nothing kind about what’s waiting for you and your family out on the highways. Just listen:
On November 8, 1994 there was a light drizzle and fog on the Illinois expressways and up into Wisconsin. It was fall. Temperatures were in the 40s.
Now think of the Willis family packed into the family van, six kids and parents on the expressway near Milwaukee. The father, my friend Scott Willis, a Christian pastor from Mt. Greenwood, was driving. His wife Janet was in the seat next to him.
They had just voted Republican for their candidate for governor, Illinois Secretary of State, George Ryan. They liked Ryan.
“I was looking at the road and was alert,” Scott recalled. “Our little baby (Peter) was behind us. Our son Ben was behind us on the other side. I saw the object (a metal brace) I thought.
He thought it was one of those blocks that maybe came off a flatbed truck. The car in front of him swerved, and he knew he couldn’t miss hitting the object.
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