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Stan Snodgrass had a vision as a child. In the vision, he saw himself as a grown man, picking up an infant who had been left crying and covered with dirt in a dingy alleyway. Snodgrass saw himself picking the boy up and helping to brush away his tears. Years later, Snodgrass and his wife Jennifer adopted a two-day old baby, who they named Chase. God gave me the vision to let me know that I would eventually have to take care of this boy, he said. After Chase was killed in a car accident March 22 at the age of 16, Snodgrass had the vision again, he said. This time, I saw myself picking the little boy up and holding him, feeling total love for him, then setting him down as a young man, Snodgrass said. I set him down onto green grass, and I could see him walk away under the shadow of the cross while I stood with Jennifer and Chandler, Chases brother, crying while we watched him walk away. However, the tears the family shed in the vision were not for the teen-ager, but for themselves, Snodgrass said. We werent crying because Chase had to leave, he said. We were crying because we couldnt go with him. Snodgrass was speaking to more than 200 Warren County residents, who gathered Friday night at the National Corvette Museum Amphitheater to begin mending the wounds of a county that has lost four teen-agers to automobile accidents in the past month. The event featured speeches by parents of the teens, ministers and others, as well as music by Christian rock band 40 Years of Dallas. This is not a funeral, but I want us to be mindful of why we are here, said Brandon Porter, the emcee for the event. We as a community are still grieving for these young people and we need to lift each other up in this time. In addition to Chase Snodgrass, a student at Greenwood High School, Warren East High School student Sara Beth Benson, 16, and Warren Central High School students Joseph Turner, 17, and Brad Griffith, 16, have lost their lives in four separate accidents since March 1.Ben Davis, a Greenwood student who was riding with Chase Snodgrass on the night he was killed, said the accident has brought him closer to other classmates. Ive become better friends with the ones I have left, because I know we wont have each other forever, Davis said. Davis and several other Greenwood students attended Friday nights event together, wearing T-shirts with a picture of their classmate on them. This is a really good thing were doing here, said Brittany Howell, another Greenwood student. We need to learn from this so we can not have to repeat this experience. Sarah Farias, a student at Bowling Green Junior High, was also at the event Friday night along with her classmate Ginger Daniels. While Farias did not know any of the teen-agers who died, she goes to church with Sara Beth Bensons father, she said. For Farias, the accidents have helped reinforce the importance of family, church and community, she said. I know Ive got to get more into the spirit, she said. Ive got to thank God every day Im alive, because I dont know how many more of them there will be.