Twenty-four hours after the tragic and shocking death of Grant Wahl, an American journalist who died while reporting on the World Cup in Qatar, his brother Eric is imagining a moment from their childhood — more specifically, the basement of the Mission, Kansas house in which they grew up.
In the memory, Grant is sitting at a table, his ankles tied to his chair. He’d done it to himself, Eric clarifies quickly with a slight laugh. Grant had wanted to ensure that he wouldn’t stop working on his homework until it had all been completed, so he borrowed some twine from the garage and tied his feet to the legs of the chair.
This wasn’t a one-time thing.
