10.19.09
There Is Hope
My post on Friday was of a horrific incident…five young men setting another on fire and some of them laughing about it.
Stories like that just make you want to cry for humanity.
Then I read this:
Mother’s final duty to soldier son — escort his body home
Toward the end of the story the soldiers Mom has been told that her son didn’t die right away and lived for perhaps 1/2 an hour, in which time he removed his St. Christopher’s medal that his Mom had given to him when he was 15 years old and gave it to a buddy. His Mom says, “”I’m glad Stephan didn’t die right away because he was allowed to give that one gift to his unit and give them the St. Christopher and that he also was able to feel God come to him and take him away,” she said. “That he was able to ponder and have a last chance, a last moment, to think about his family and have God take him.”
He must have been a special kind of guy to have as a son and friend. The short story kind of makes you see that even after Friday, not every young person is a dweeb…there’s hope when you hear of young people like Spc. Stephan Mace.
