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CELEBRATIONS

school was such a big part of Alex’s wonderful year
in St. Cloud. He really enjoyed his classes and the
sports activities. He was a member of the soccer
and the track teams and he loved weight lifting.
It was unbelievable how many people from Tech
came to see us at the memorial, wrote us cards and
letters, presented us pictures and gave us an idea
of how Alex had spent the last 10 months he hadn’t
been home. It made us feel much closer to him
again.

“Thank you, St. Cloud,
for making the last 10
months of Alex’s life such
a happy 10 months.”
Thank you coaches for bringing the soccer
team in their uniforms to the memorial and not only
presenting us a soccer ball, but laying the little one
down at the site of the crash. Thank you for your
letters that showed us how much Alex was loved
and how much his efforts were appreciated.
Thank you to Alex’s friends for being there, for
sharing their stories, for getting up on stage to speak
so highly of Alex, for wearing the shirts they bought
together, for coming over to Dave’s house, for
keeping in touch with us.

Thank you to EJ and Matt for giving us the
picture album, for putting up the pin boards, for the
slideshow and for playing Alex’s favorite music at
the memorial. You are true friends.
Thank you to Youth for Understanding, the
exchange organization that not only brought Alex to
the United States but had brought his parents over
in the late 1970s to spend an exchange year with
an American family. President Michael Hill and area
representative Karla Knaus Ehlinger came out to St.
Cloud to give wonderful speeches. YFU Germany
and YFU USA took good care of us and continue to
support us.
Thank you to Michael Daniels from Daniels
Funeral Home for being the person he is and
making all the things that needed to be organized
and done as least painful as possible.
Thank you to Sandy and Jen and everybody else
from the mayor’s office and to the City Council for
all the generous help and the cookies during our
days in St. Cloud.
Thank you, St. Cloud, for making the last 10
months of Alex’s life such a happy 10 months.
Thank you, Dave, for simply everything.
Written by Jutta Voigt and Yorck Jetter along with
Alex’s sister Kira Voigt, who is proud to be an
exchange student with Youth for Understanding for
the 2015-16 school year.

Courtesy of Jutta Voigt.
YFU

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