Editor:

My family and I are fairly new to the Bellevue neighborhood, having moved here about 18 months ago. In this time, we have met many wonderful, friendly and kind people. Unfortunately, I am not writing about them in this letter. Rather, I am writing about someone we have not met, at least not formally. This letter is about...the person that decided to walk onto my porch and help themselves to something that was not theirs, and in the process turned my 5-year-old daughter’s day upside down and left her hurt and crying.

The item I am referring to is a child’s red wooden Radio Flyer wagon with the nice wooden stakebed sides. Not a big deal to some, but to her it was. Not because she uses it everyday, but because someone stole from her.

She was crying when she called me at work to ask why someone would do this to her, even telling me that all they had to do was ask and she would have let them borrow it. She also asked if she would ever see her red wagon again and all I could say was, maybe if we were lucky it would come back. It took my wife and I a combined two hours to soothe her and calm her down enough to go to bed.

Do (they) feel proud...for having stolen from a child? I doubt it. Do the right thing. Return it. Restore that child’s faith that people are good.

Rob Ursin
Bellevue