good vs evil: newsworthy!
Time is all any of us have! What will you do in the 24 hours that you have been graced with?
Yesterday's news: a 91 year old woman was robbed at gunpoint in her St Paul, MN home after she had just come back from the bank. It led her to wonder of she had been followed all the way. Although shaken, she is not deterred and was not hurt. Thank God for that, at least! May that robber and thief have a guilty conscience until this is rectified. Robber remains at large.
In other news, this story will warm your heart! (Cpl. Sean Osterman, USMC....rest in peace!)
After watching a FOX 9 News report on a military mom who hopes no
soldier's grave will be without a wreath this holiday season, a
Minnesota man is offering to give a special Christmas gift to that woman
by placing a wreath on the grave of her son during his trip to
Washington, D.C.
At North Junior High School in St. Cloud, Kelly
Hugo is known as the counselor -- but she's also known as a gold-star
mom who lost her son while he was serving in Afghanistan a year ago.
"I
tend to believe in heaven there is no time, so it's been the blink of
an eye -- but I felt every moment here for the past year."
A year ago this month, Hugo buried her son, Sean Osterman, at Arlington National Cemetery. This year, she is championing a push through Wreaths across America in an effort to ensure no grave marker goes without a wreath this year.
"It
would be ever so important to be able to know that people cared enough
to think about all those family members who can't get there," Hugo said.
Many
military families can't make the trip to D.C. themselves, and that fact
touched a Minneapolis man so deeply that he reached out to Hugo to
offer to personally place a wreath on her son's grave.
"I couldn't help but be moved," he said.
Tyler
Roessel didn't know the slain soldier or his mother -- and was
reluctant to go on camera, saying his story is about the soldier's
sacrifice and not his attempt to help a family.
"Before I emailed
Kelly, I went online and read all the articles through the newspapers
and realized what kind of guy he was," Roessel said. "That just makes it
that much more meaningful."
Still, he spoke with FOX 9 News in
the hopes that his story will inspire others to get involved and work to
get wreaths on every soldier's headstone.
"I just realized this
is an opportunity for me to step up and give back," he said. "I really
just hope people, with this, would realize when they are with their
families to take a time, a moment, and remember everyone that's
sacrificing for our freedom."
For Hugo, it's a Christmas gift she never expected.
"It
floored me, and I can't tell you how much I appreciate it," said Hugo.
"It's like a weight is lifted off my shoulders because I know somebody
will be there."
Roessel will make the trip to Arlington on either
the 23rd or 24th to place a wreath, flowers and -- at the request of
Hugo -- a rock from Wisconsin, where Sean was born.
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