How many children's funerals are too many?
Q. How many children's funerals are too many?
A. 1
It's NOT a difficult question. KIDS SHOULD NOT DIE! It's really simple.
In the last 4 days, I have attended 2 memorial services for 2 young people who died of cancer. Last Friday, I was privileged to speak at Taylor Helland's memorial service in Arlington, TX. Taylor was a 19 yr old, TCU sophomore. Today, I attended the Janazah (funeral) for 8 year old, B+ Hero (Tri Delt-Villanova), Jibril, in North Philadelphia. (See picture of Jibril when Ali and the Philadelphia 76ers hosted them for a game last Fall.)
Whether Protestant or Muslim, southern or northern, white or black, girl or boy...it makes no difference! The grief that I saw on Friday is the same grief that I saw today. The tears are the same. We MUST come together, as a nation, as a world, and say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! It's time we put the lives of our kids at the forefront and fight for them. They deserve it. They deserve a chance to grow up! We OWE it to them and their families!
May God bless our B+ Heroes and their families and give us the courage to take on this fight!
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Ali & Andrew's Dad