“We are here as his sons,” the boy continues. “We are honored to stand together before him now, to commemorate his life, and to remember him in death, as we commend his soul to his eternal rest.”
After this experience, the young men clearly got a whole new perspective on both life and death. They were pleased that the school had sent them out to take on this task.
“I know I’m going back, and I’m going to go to school and take another quiz,” Brendan McInerney, one of the boys told npr. “But all that work, you can get caught up in it… When you kind of get out of that bubble that you can kind of stuck in, you get perspective on what’s really important in life.”
Watch the powerful moment in the video below.
I’m really impressed with these boys! They did something really selfless and beautiful and stood up for a man who will never be able to thank them.
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