"I wanted to walk over to them and tell them, 'Here's why you go in...' but I didn't. Instead I wrote it down."

[JIM McGregor]'s nephew in Winnipeg has since posted the poem on the City of Winnipeg's electronic condolence book for [Harold Lessard] and [Tom Nichols] (www.winnipeg.ca/fps/).

"It becomes a pretty close family," McGregor said. "When you hear of what happened in Winnipeg, you just hold your breath and hope it's not someone you know.