“I was shocked and yelled to my niece, ‘He just laid under it!’ Wow! I just watched the most amazing act of Patriotism.”
‘Was waiting to pick up my kids from school when 3 boys took down the flag. They were having a hard time making sure it didn’t touch the ground, when the third boy laid under it to honor it.’
‘It took us a second to realize this firefighter was walking the flights of stairs as all the firefighters did on 9/11. It’s little things like this that make you stop and think.’
This year, 17 years after the fatal attacks, the tradition continues. Never forget.
‘He told me to follow him back into town, so he could fill up my tank and I could make it home.’
“After filling up my gas tank, he offered to buy me something to eat and drink.”
‘Don’t ever come home from work and ask her, ‘What have you been doing all day?”
“Because chances are you’d have nothing if she wasn’t right there with you. I know I wouldn’t.”
‘We were only together a few months when I changed jobs. I quit because they weren’t treating me fairly. I was young and stupid.’
“‘Men don’t just quit their jobs, Brad… they find something else first and they stick it out. That’s just what adults do.’ She was worried because I wasn’t.”
‘I went on a date today– with my son’: Touching way this mom prepares her son to be a ‘perfect gentleman’
“When these sweet little boys grow into almost-men and I watch them escort a girl to the car for the very first time, I hope to beam with pride as they walk around to the passenger side to open her door first.”
‘I realize love is the most powerful, the most exhausting, the most incredible way to live your life’
“Now, watching my dad care for my mom, I realize love is the most powerful, the most exhausting, the most incredible way to live your life — from beginning to end.”
‘If this was my job, I would quit.’
“If you’re a mom, I’m pretty sure you feel me on this one. I’m pretty sure you’re out there nodding your head in solidarity.”
Fifth grader puts life on the line for classmates during active shooter drill: ‘I would rather be the one that died protecting my friends’
“Myself and three other boys are supposed to push the table against the door. After that, all the class is going to stand behind us on the back wall.”
