From the day she began walking, she began dancing. That was her passion and what she wanted to do for the rest of her life. I loved to watch her dance, loved to kiss her and tell her that I loved her.
The last time I kissed her and told her I loved her, she was unconscious on the gurney. She died that morning. She was 15.
When Alisa was killed by an underage drunk driver, I said enough is enough. Then I found out every 50 minutes in this country, someone loses an Alisa to drunk driving. That’s when I joined MADD...
Read more of the letter introducing Jan Withers, MADD’s new National President.