On Monday, 12-year-old Brandon Dornbusch and his 14-year-old brother Justin (who gave his life in a brave attempt to rescue his younger brother) drowned in the Chippewa River near Watson, Minn. after venturing onto a spillway and getting trapped in the current. Authorities say the boys were probably in the water for about an hour before their bodies floated to the river's surface downstream. Source: http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/4819160.html ... This tragedy, like other area drownings cited earlier on this message board, just make it so very, very hard to understand why the search for Joshua was concentrated on campus lakes for the better part of a year after Josh's disappearance. In all the drownings reported in local media this year, victims were recovered in hours to just a few days. Imagine what might have been if some of the resources poured into the futile water search for Josh had been directed to investigate more plausible alternatives than a pedestrian drowning.
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