{"id":25769,"date":"2017-02-15T11:01:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T16:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.atlantictraining.com\/blog\/?p=25769"},"modified":"2017-02-15T11:01:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T16:01:43","slug":"pain-chance-meet-forgive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atlantictraining.com\/blog\/pain-chance-meet-forgive\/","title":{"rendered":"After the Pain, a Chance to Meet and Forgive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"story-body-supplemental\">\n<div class=\"story-body story-body-1\">TOPEKA, Kan. \u2014 Early one morning along a stretch of nearly deserted Kansas highway, Cameron Freeman, a college student from Nebraska, and Zachary Harrison, an Air Force loadmaster, were involved in a violent traffic collision that left one of the promising young men dead and the other in prison.<\/div>\n<div class=\"story-body story-body-1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"story-body story-body-1\">Suffering from pain, confusion and bouts of overpowering anger, the survivor and the victim\u2019s family eventually agreed to meet through a Kansas restorative justice program, which brings together victims and those who have upended their lives. Similar programs are expanding throughout the country. Here\u2019s a look at Cameron, Zachary and Cameron\u2019s parents as they become involved in the program.\n<h4 class=\"story-subheading story-content\" data-para-count=\"66\" data-total-count=\"888\">Cameron Freeman, 21, was a free spirit, \u201cbrilliant and crazy.\u201d<\/h4>\n<p>At 6-foot-7, Cameron was still adjusting to his body. He loved electronic music, and often lost himself while dancing \u2014 joyously, if inelegantly \u2014 at concerts. He played the cello and dreamed of becoming a science writer. At age 7, he told his parents he had discovered a cure for AIDS by reformulating RNA molecules.\u00a0<a class=\"visually-hidden skip-to-text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/03\/us\/after-the-pain-a-chance-to-meet-and-forgive.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FDrunken%20and%20Reckless%20Driving&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=timestopics&amp;region=stream&amp;module=stream_unit&amp;version=latest&amp;contentPlacement=1&amp;pgtype=collection&amp;_r=0#story-continues-1\">Continue reading the main story<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"supplemental-1\" class=\"supplemental first\" data-between-flex-ads=\"true\" data-pre-height=\"1180\" data-max-items=\"2\" data-remaining=\"235\" data-minimum=\"400\" data-last-item-height=\"435\" data-flex-ad-adjacency=\"true\" data-post-height=\"1180\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"story-body-supplemental\">\n<div class=\"story-body story-body-2\">\u201cHe was like a wild colt on the open prairie,\u201d his father, Paul Freeman, said.On Nov. 23, 2010, two days before Thanksgiving, Cameron and three friends packed into a Mazda 626 and drove from Lincoln, Neb., to Lawrence, Kan., to see a concert by one of Cameron\u2019s favorite electronica performers, <a href=\"https:\/\/bonobomusic.com\/\">Bonobo<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"story-body story-body-2\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"story-body story-body-2\">Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/03\/us\/after-the-pain-a-chance-to-meet-and-forgive.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FDrunken%20and%20Reckless%20Driving&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=timestopics&amp;region=stream&amp;module=stream_unit&amp;version=latest&amp;contentPlacement=1&amp;pgtype=collection&amp;_r=0\">WashingtonPost.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOPEKA, Kan. \u2014 Early one morning along a stretch of nearly deserted Kansas highway, Cameron Freeman, a college student from Nebraska, and Zachary Harrison, an Air Force loadmaster, were involved in a violent traffic collision that left one of the promising young men dead and the other in prison. 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