Yale football star dies during Navy SEAL "Hell Week"
The Daily Article
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🗓️ 8 February 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Yale football star Kyle Mullen recently died during Nave SEAL “Hell Week” training. Five-year-old Rayan Oram died after having been rescued from a 100-foot well in Morocco. In The Daily Article for February 8, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison discusses how grief marks us and why being adopted by God is so empowering.
Author: Dr. Jim Denison
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast. |
| 0:07.2 | I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim |
| 0:12.7 | Denison. |
| 0:14.1 | Kyle Mullen was a football star at his New Jersey High School and for Yale, where he was a second team, all Ivy League selection, and Monmouth University. |
| 0:26.2 | He was also an Honor Society student described by a former coach as a great athlete, but a better person. |
| 0:35.9 | The coach added that Mullen was probably one of the best kids I ever had. |
| 0:42.3 | Great, great kid on the field, but even better off the field. |
| 0:47.8 | Mullen, age 24, died last Friday during Navy SEAL Hell Week training. |
| 0:54.8 | The commander of Naval Special Warfare Command said, |
| 0:59.4 | We are extending every form of support we can to the Mullen family. |
| 1:04.7 | That same day, five-year-old Rayan Orham died after being extricated from a Moroccan well. |
| 1:13.5 | He fell 100 feet into the well the previous Tuesday. |
| 1:18.5 | The rescue attempt captured global attention. |
| 1:22.0 | Moroccan king Mohammed the 6th called his parents after he died. |
| 1:27.2 | French President Emmanuel Macron added on a |
| 1:30.3 | Facebook post, Tonight I want to tell the family of Little Rayan and the Moroccan people that we share their pain. |
| 1:40.3 | Leaders are right to extend every possible support to these families. |
| 1:45.0 | Society's attention will soon shift from these two tragedies, |
| 1:50.0 | but their parents and families will be marked by them forever. |
| 1:55.0 | This is how it is with families and how it should be. |
| 1:59.0 | As Queen Elizabeth II noted in the aftermath of the 9-11 attacks, |
| 2:04.8 | grief is the price we pay for love. Yesterday, we began a week-long focus on the transformational |
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