There's a theory about life that compares it to an echo. When you yell, I love you into a canyon,

you hear, I love you back. When you yell, I hate you into that same canyon, you hear back,

you hear back, I hate you. What we put into the world is generally speaking what we get

in return. People are usually the same. When you put kind actions into your daily interactions

with others, you will generally get kindness back.

Deal only in anger with others, and anger tends to be the response.

This is why Maggie and I, as teachers, vow to put as much good, as much empathy, as much love into this world as we can.

We want to think that if we are better,

then we can make the world better.

Sometimes, unfortunately, though,

the world has ideas of its own.

Sometimes, all you give is love,

yet you get mistreated as a response.

We hurt as a whole when the love we betray is innocence.

When we mistreat a kindness that doesn't question nor betray, the goodness of a child.

Politician Tom Allen said, quote, I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized. Number one, protect them from harm,

end quote. That's it. Innocent children need adult ambassadors to fight for them. But that protection can't take breaks because danger doesn't. I only wish that a child in our case today had only heard kind words. I love you's and it's going to be okay. Instead of witnessing acts of violence and

hatred, harm came uninvited to him one evening in January of 1984. And his family is still

searching the answers to who betrayed the trust of a child.

And perhaps even more confounding, why?

This is the story of Gary Grant Jr.

Thank you. Grant Jr. Welcome to coffee and cases where we like our coffee and cases where we like our coffee hot and our cases cold.

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