IT'S TIME TO TELL THE STORY (TRUE STORY) OF "DANNY AND THE DRAGONFLY".

ON JULY 17TH, 2010, MY BROTHER-IN-LAW, (DAD TO KELLIE, SCOTT AND RICKY LANDAKER)

PASSED AWAY.

THE NEXT DAY, SATURDAY, I DECIDED TO TRY AN EXPERIMENT...I WAS IN A ROOM BY MYSELF AND

SPOKE OUT LOUD TO DANNY. THE FOLLOWING IS AS IT HAPPENED AND THERE ARE AT LEAST

THIRTY SANE WITNESSES TO THE EVENTS THAT FOLLOWED.

I SAID TO DANNY...IF YOU CAN HEAR ME LET'S DO SOMETHING SPECIAL. IF YOU CAN

MOTIVATE ANYTHING ON THIS SIDE, FROM WHERE YOU ARE...HAVE A "LARGE DRAGONFLY" FLY OVER

YOUR CASKET WITH EVERYONE PRESENT, IF YOU ARE IN "HEAVEN". IF YOU ARE SOMEWHERE IN

BETWEEN, SEND A SMALL DRAGONFLY.

I DECIDED NOT TO TELL ANYONE ABOUT THIS UNTIL "SUNDAY". I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE BETTER

IF "SOMEONE" KNEW ABOUT THE EXPERIMENT, SO I TOLD MY WIFE, SHARON.

MONDAY AFTERNOON WE AND FAMILY MEMBERS WERE AT THE SHOWING UNTIL 8P.M.

WHEN WE LEFT THE FUNERAL HOME, WHICH BY THE WAY IS NEXT DOOR TO THE CEMETARY,

SHARON DECIDED TO CHECK ON WHETHER THE TENT WAS UP OR NOT AT THE GRAVE SITE, SO WE

STOPPED. THE GRAVE WAS NOT YET PREPARED SO WE WALKED AROUND LOOKING AT MARKERS AND

THINGS. I THEN WENT OVER TO THE STATUE OF "JESUS" WITH THE THOUGHT THAT IT NEEDED

CLEANED AND PERHAPS I WOULD OFFER TO POWER WASH IT AT NO CHARGE. WHILE I WAS LOOKING

AT IT, A SMALL DRAGONFLY CAME TO MY ATTENTION SITTING ON THE BASE. I CALLED EVERYONE

OVER TO SEE AND EXPLAINED THE EXPERIMENT TO EVERYONE'S AMAZEMENT. (THE PEOPLE PRESENT

AT THAT TIME WERE: DANNY'S EX-WIFE "FAITH", HIS SON "SCOTT", ME, MY WIFE, "SHARON", MY

DAUGHTER, "RACHELLE" , MY SON "DAVID”, AND DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, "JAMIE".)

TUESDAY CAME AND THE SERVICE WAS OFFICIATED BY A RETIRED "CATHOLIC" PRIEST, WHO DID

A FINE JOB. AT THE END OF HIS SERVICE...SHARON ASKED IF I COULD SPEAK. I GOT UP

AND TOLD THE STORY OF THE EXPERIMENT AND THE SIGHTING OF THE SMALL DRAGONFLY.

I SUGGESTED TO EVERYONE TO BE AWARE AT THE GRAVE SITE FOR THE "LARGE DRAGONFLY". THEY

AGREED.

AT THE GRAVE SITE, THE PRIEST WAS FINISHING HIS RECITATION, WHEN LARRY CAME OVER

TO ME TO POINT OUT A DRAGONFLY HEADING TOWARDS THE GROUP STANDING THERE. I TOLD

EVERYONE TO LOOK, JUST AS THE PRIEST FINISHED, AND WHEN EVERYONE WAS WATCHING THE

“LARGE” DRAGONFLY…IT FLEW OVER DANNY’S CASKET, JUST AS I HAD ASKED DANNY TO DO.<|p>

I, REV. EDWARD M. GIONEST, AN ORDAINED AND LICENSED MINISTER, SWEAR THIS STATEMENT TO

BE TOTALLY AND ABSOLUTELY TRUE.