comment by an Iraqi who met Steve Everhart

While we all continue to come to terms with Steve’s death, I was glad (but not surprised) to hear that he’d left a very good impression on the Iraqis he worked with during his week there.

“Omar Nayef:
June 25th, 2011 at 7:46 am
Dr. Everhart worked with us in Baghdad for the last few days and he was nothing but a dedicated hardworking gentleman with a sense of humor, we all here, as Iraqi working for this project to bring development and international standards to the country financial sector, we are saddened and shocked for this tremendous loss.

our heartfelt condolences to Dr. Everhart’s family, and he’ll be remembered here, at this place, Mansour Compound in Baghdad, forever.

thank you Dr.Everhart for your kindness, sense of humor, compassion,

thank you for everything”

A dedicated, hardworking gentleman with kindness, a sense of humor, and compassion– that was Steve, all right.

I think many of us are still in complete denial, and it will take a few months’ worth of the school year to start to come to terms with this incident.