From the Sun-Times: 
 
Couple whose 6 kids died in crash write children's book 
 
January 25, 2006 
 
BY NATASHA KORECKI Federal Courts Reporter = 
 
 The couple who lost six children in a fiery crash near Milwaukee tied to a scandal under former Secretary of State George Ryan said Tuesday they will release an illustrated book about one of their six children who died. 
 
 Scott Willis and his wife, Janet, said the children's book, A Dad's Delight, is about their late son Hank, one of the six children who died in the 1994 crash. 
 
 Janet Willis did the illustrations. The book, which they hope to release next year, is a true father-son tale of how Hank broke a window while playing ball. 
 
 "Hank, for a 6-year-old, was really good," Scott Willis said with a gleam in his eye. He said Hank threw the ball right through his office window. 
 
'They were just delightful' 
 
 Willis said he initially got mad, but the story ends with son and dad playing catch -- and with a realization. 
 
 "God has forgiven me for far greater things than a broken window," he said, adding the story reminds him and his wife about what a delight their children were. 
 
 "They were just regular kids," Willis said. "They weren't any better . . . they were just delightful." 
 
 In November 1994, the Willis family was headed to Milwaukee on a Wisconsin highway when a piece of a semi-trailer truck fell off and hit their van, causing an explosion that killed the six children. 
 
 The parents survived. The trucker, Ricardo Guzman, didn't know English and didn't understand calls on his radio that the part was about to fall off his truck. It was later discovered Guzman paid a bribe to illegally get his license under George Ryan's administration. 
 
 Ryan was not charged in the crash, but he is accused of dismantling the inspector general's office, which was supposed to investigate the crash's ties to corruption in the secretary of state office. 
 
Staying out of limelight 
 
 Jurors at Ryan's public corruption trial have only heard a sanitized reference to the fatal crash, and Scott Willis said Tuesday that was fine with him, because his family has wanted to stay out of the limelight. 
 
 "I'm thankful for our [justice] system," he said. 
 
 The Willises moved to Tennessee, but stopped by Ryan's public corruption trial Tuesday for the third time since it started in late September. 
 
They were in town to visit an 8-year-old grandchild who was just deemed free of leukemia, Scott Willis said. 
 
 The Willises have one child, Dan, who was not in the van at the time of the crash. He has eight children, the couple said.