Subdeacon Joe Posted October 20, 2015 Posted October 20, 2015 High School Football Player Stops During Game To Thank WWII Veterans BOSSIER CITY, La. — Security officers patrolling high school football games have seen it all. But one sheriff working a night game last week said he’s never seen something quite like this. A group of seven World War II veterans — six men from the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy and one female veteran who served in the Women in the Air Force — were seated on the sideline as Parkway High School Varsity football team’s honored guests. They smiled as they watched players 80 years their junior run back to the field at the end of halftime. The players were heading for a team huddle when #83 broke from the group and made a beeline for the vets. Chase Hill, a junior at the Louisiana high school, stopped to greet the group. “He just left the formation and came up to vets and shook every one of their hands,” Lt. Bill Davis of Bossier Sheriff’s Office said. “This isn’t something we see every day.” When Davis saw the one football player jump out of the crowd he knew he had to capture the moment on camera. Most are like him. What a shame that it's usually the few bad apples that make the headlines.
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted October 20, 2015 Posted October 20, 2015 Maybe... just maybe.. all is not yet lost.
Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 Posted October 20, 2015 Posted October 20, 2015 Quote: "(Lt. Bill) Davis of the Bossier Sheriff's Office said he can’t speak on behalf of the teen, but he did agree with the hundreds of people who commented on the photo: His “parents certainly raised this boy right!” End quote. I hope his parents stand shoulder to shoulder in front of a mirror and then reach over and pat each other on the back. There is only one place that young man could learn this. The apple falleth not far from the tree!
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