Dear Grand Master Park, Jr. Grand Masters, Senior Masters, Masters, Black Belts and Color Belts.

As we teach and grow year after year we become close. We are instructors and students, and we always need to remember our place and uphold the mannerisms of Tae Kwon Do. But low and behold we end up loving one another or at a minimum respecting each other, despite our differences.

We all Love Tae Park and all he has done for us. We all love Tae Kwon Do and that’s why we do what we do.

So this e-mail is to let you know:

#1 how wonderful you all are to me, and how much I appreciate all of you. Even if I do not know you personally.

#2 Is I have a student named Daniel Ziglinski. He is a low blue belt. You might remember him trying to break the 8 boards in Tennessee with a slippery side kick. He didn’t break them that day, which I thought was strange because this guy had an exceptional slippery side kick.

This story of Daniel started near the end November. We were about to test and Daniel came down with a bad cough and began to feel really bad. He never liked to miss class, and after missing two or three he decided to return so he could get ready for the testing. He was coughing and hacking so bad I told him he had to go to the doctor and get checked out because I could not have him hacking all over Grand Master Park and all the rest of us when we went to Tennessee. Daniel was kind of like me. We think we can ride sickness out and our bodies will heal themselves. We got the MAN’S – MAN thing going on and we don’t need to go to a doctor. “Dah”. But that’s how we are. So Daniel went and got an anti biotic. His cough was minimized for the Tennessee seminar, but when we got back to Kansas City he went back to the doctor. The doctor gave him another anti biotic because the first one helped but it didn’t cure him. A few weeks latter around the first of April, Daniel went back to the doctor and told him he was still feeling ill. so they took pictures of his lungs and low and behold, Daniel had stage 4 cancer. That is as bad as it gets I am told.

Daniel is a strong Christian and knows he is going to be with God in heaven, and is very comfortable with that. He told me his only problem was that he wasn’t sure God was teaching Tae Kwon Do up there. I assured him that God is greatest Master of all so not to worry. In the middle of April they gave Daniel 6 months to a year to live.

Daniel died yesterday, May 15, 2010. He was in his 40’s, a single man with a huge family and a wonderful girl friend named Rebeca, who is a low green belt with us.

Daniel will be truly missed. He was a wonderful young man, a pleasure to be around, and a really good blue belt that would have made a great black belt, should he have been allowed to stay with us. I will miss him. I am also sure Daniel would like me to thank all of you for being in his life, to thank you for Tae Park Tae Kwon do. to tell you if you don’t have God in your life you should. Why is one can hold on to God’s promises that after we die we will be going to a better place, and Gods peace during these last few months have comforted him more than most can imagine.

In closing I want to thank you all, and to tell you how great it is to know you. May God Bless you and keep you close to him.

Best Wishes
Senior Master Tetro
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Funeral Arrangements & Memorium Information

The funeral is Saturday – May 22. 2010 at 11:30 AM

Flowers should be sent to:
McGilley Memorial Chapel
20 West Linwood Boulevard
Kansas City, Missouri 64111

Daniel’s brother is settling all of his finances.  Donations should be sent to:
Eric Ziglinski
7530 N. Nodaway Ave.
Kansas City, Missouri 64152-4679.