We were riding on our boat on Lake Gladewater when we heard sirens and saw police near the swimming area. We didn’t think much about it, so we kept on doing what we were doing. About thirty minutes later, the police were still there. I was going home with a friend, and we went to go see what happened.
As we were walking to  the swimming area, we saw a big crowd around it. We stopped to look at it and what was happening around it. We saw people running around the crowd to see what happened while people were getting ready to go home. Two girls walked by and my friends mom asked what had happened. One of them answered that someone who was slower than a lot of people decided to walk out to a buoy without a life jacket on and it got to deep for him and he drowned. She also said that they haven’t found his body yet. It was so sad it almost brought me to tears. My dog died and now a senior in high school drowned. How much worse can this weekend get?
This is a great example of why you should wear a life jacket when you go to the lake. Any lake, it doesn’t matter! I wear my life jacket when I’m on a boat. I would wear one when I’m in the swimming area, too. You never know what’s going to happen, or when or where it’s going to happen.
Life jackets are important. You need to think about yourself and not about what other people are doing. If someone who’s popular at your school doesn’t wear a life jacket, you should. Your better safe than sorry.