JIM SALTER
Associated Press Writer
FLORISSANT, Mo. – Gail Rehme knows she’ll never shake the memory of that June night in 1984 – the late-night knock on the door, the hushed talk in the living room. Odd, the 10-year-old girl thought, that the pastor would come over so late.
The next morning, Gail’s father called the family together. Her big brother, David, had been killed by a drunken driver on his way home from a Cardinals baseball game.
Last month, after years of urging by Rehme, Missouri joined a growing list of states offering roadside signs to both honor victims of drunken driving crashes and to encourage safe driving. The first sign installed under what has been dubbed “David’s Law” is along Interstate 270 in St. Louis County and honors 19-year-old David Poenicke – Rehme’s brother.