One a day with turkey and all the fixings and taking time to be with family and friends, I actually had a little down time during the morning of basting and preparing to sit back and watch a few minutes of the Macy's Parade and a quick heartwarming story. I flipped through the channels and stopped at a story on ESPN about a handicapped man who was the 50 year pride of a small college on the eastcoast.
On a cold winter day in 1960 a young college student was driving home when he stopped upon a woman with a young man in a wheelchair stopped along the road. The young college student asked if he might assist her and little did he know that he along with hundreds of other students would have a lifelong bond with this man.
Butch became a fixture not only to the college but also to the young men and women he touched. He became the mascot of the football, basketball teams, attending all of the games for the past 50 years. Each basketball season the football team gets him to every game and each basketball season the football team makes sure he is there to cheer them on also. Over the past years he has made many friends and is a part of each and every one of there families. At a recent football game he tearfully thanked his first friend who picked him and his grandmother up that cold day and said he felt so blessed to know all of them. The excitement they see on his face they said made there time at the college a truly inspiring time in all there lives.
Of course by the end I was tearing up as well. Thanksgiving is a time to remember memories of past and present. It is a time for family and friends and also a time to remember how thankful we all are to have our health, jobs to go to and loved ones to hold close. Enjoy every minute and give to others no matter how small it might be.
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