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I yi Fifth grade boy saves 6-year-old E-6 THE NEW MEXICAN Sunday June 4 1995 Visitors leave objects of devotion on graves of Bruce Lee and son A he saw a little girl a neighbor run towards him Police say she was fleeing from a man who tried to talk her into his truck The man reportedly told Michael he was the father then offered him $10 to help get her into the vehicle Michael refused then told her to run He accompanied her to a phone and gave police a description of the man and his truck He even remembered three numbers of the license other children and loved it He had only seen snow twice but he down the hill like said Johnson Then on Wednesday officers from the same program took him on a $300 shopping expedition at first comment once inside the door was want to get a dress for my contributed $400 worth of merchandise for his siblings plate The man was later arrested and charged with attempted kidnapping is a little hero in all of said-San Francisco police officer Bart Johnson who showed up at house -last weekend to invite him on a ski trip sponsored by Operation Dream an organization run by some members of the police housing task force Michael went about 30 isfeiy 'VsfcWag ciaan: Brandon Bruce Lee died 1 7 days before he was to be married to Eliza Hutton and the gravestone designed by North Snohomish County sculptor Kirk McLean is a tribute to their young love Js aujaKuna XV Rolling in Hie Savings Entire Stock Ribbon by the Roil By KATHERINE SELIGMAN San Francisco Examiner SAN FRANCISCO A week after he rescued a 6-year-old girl from a suspected kidnapper fifth-grader Michael Sparks has become a local hero never got much attention before but I like he said Last Thursday Michael was near the Bernal Dwellings public housing complex when I il 5 IT Entire Stock Pedestals Busts 12 Off OUR EVERYDAY LOW PRICES (GLASS TOPS SOLD SEPERATELY) PVC Cacti Succulents i A OUR EVERYDAY LOW PRICES DREMEU Moto Jool Kit VARIABLE SPEED 23 BITS ACCESSORIES USERS GUIDE 6997 OUR 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character who rises from his grave to avenge his killers Brandon Bruce Lee died 17 days before he was to be married to Eliza Hutton and the gravestone designed by North Snohomish County sculptor Kirk McLean is a tribute to their young love Its two twisting rectangles of charcoal granite join at the bottom and pull apart at the top represents Eliza and Brandon the two of them and how the tragedy of his death separated their mortal life said Cadwell who described son like father as a poetic and romantic person The inscription in gold leaf' is a quote Brandon Lee had chosen for the wedding invitations from Paul book The Sheltering Sky: Because we don't know when we will it begins with eerie foreshadowing get to think of life as fin inexhaustible well Yet everything happens a cer tain number of times and a very small number Cadwell said that finally seeing her gravestone in place gave her a sense of peace brings a kind of closure It has been 26 months to the day since Brandon Her son was in the final days of production on the North Carolina set of The Crow when he was shot with an improperly loaded stunt gun The bullet entered his abdomen and severed his spine Cadwell charging negligence eventually reached an out-of-court settlement with the film com- pany of The Crow It included an agreement with fiancee Producers excised the fatal scene from the film Cadwell who lives in Boise Idaho with her third husband Bruce Cadwell said she was initially reluctant to see the film kept saying not going to see it I bear it But I finally said hink Brandon would want me to go see it on the big She went to a 5 pm showing at a Boise theater and cried through most of it whole thing is so haunting with everything that Cadwell and Bruce Lee a philosophy graduate at the University of Washington raised son Brandon and daughter Shannon in Hong Kong California and briefly Bellevue Wa She describes her son as "a handful" growing up bright and playful "He liked to pull practical jokes and 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film Game' of Death in 1973 Doctors said Bruce Lee 32 who once said life as if it is your last likely suffered brain edema Cadwell decided on burying him in Seattle always loved she said "It was his favorite place of all the places he had lived" The gravesite which was vandalized last year has been repaired and refurbished with evergreen plantings a bench and paving stones to cover grass worn thin by the steady stream of devotees who pay respects from all over the world leaving flowers drawings martial arts weapons books coins Caretakers at Lake View estimate five to 20 people visit daily On anniversaries the number can top 100 On Wednesday a dozen stopped by an time Taky Kimura a longtime student of Bruce Lee who continues his martial arts teachings in Seattle described the appeal of Lee's positive thinking self understanding and personal intensity: had incredible power It made you shiver all the way down to your knees" Since Brandon death in 1993 even more visitors have discovered 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