Today is the 20-year anniversary of something that still haunts us in Minnesota ... including the millions of people who never met Jacob Wetterling.
20 years ago tonight, Jacob, 11 years old at the time, was abducted outside a store in St. Joseph, about 80 miles north of the Twin Cities. There has never been any real tangible clues as to what happened. The two kids who were with him at the time were allowed to escape. It has haunted them to this day.
Jacob's parents have remained rock solid. They are still holding out hope that some way, somehow, Jacob will walk through their front door. I met Patty, his mother, a year after it happened. She is an amazingly strong woman.
Jacob is out there somewhere. There are god knows how many more like him. Tonight, one hopes we can curtail some of the political fire in this country and take a second to think of the Wetterlings and the many other families living through this nightmare.
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