Dedra, David McKnight, & me at a texas state band party (circa January 2005) Rest In Peace David McKnight. We lived one floor apart for two years and went to marching band practice every day of every football season together, but over time and distance, we lost touch. It took 4 months for me to find out that he died. David McKnight was a brilliant saxophone player born March 20, 1986 in Houston Texas, who accidentally drowned late in the night of June 27, 2015 in the very river we spent so many nights of our formative years playing and frolicking in. I was lucky enough to march with him in the Texas State Band, and live directly below him at the Meadows Apartment Complex, in San Marcos, Texas. We shared music; a connection that can mean more than conversation sometimes. I would lend the guys upstairs my vinyl records, and David and Xavier would return the LPs a month later, along with a cassette tape ...