🚨WOW!!!
A 17-year-old who was just named HOMECOMING KING looked over and saw his friend with Down Syndrome who had been DREAMING of being homecoming kind for years...
...so he took off his crown, GAVE IT TO HIM, and led the ENTIRE SCHOOL in cheering for him!!! 😭
The two boys hugged right there in the middle of the gym. ❤️
You see, this took place at Mahanoy Area High School in Pennsylvania.
That year, yhere were only two nominees for homecoming king that year, Keni... and his friend, 17-year-old Axton Kuhl.
Axton has Down syndrome and Axton had been dreaming of homecoming for YEARS.
His mom says he talked about becoming king over and over.
But when all the votes were cast, they called called Keni’s name, not Axton.
But then, Keni looked over at Axton and knew just what he had to do.
He walked over, took off his crown and sash, and put them on his friend, then led the ENTIRE SCHOOL in cheering for him.
Axton broke down into tears.
But here’s the part you don't know...
Keni has a little brother with autism.
He says he did it because he’d want someone to show HIS brother that same kindness if it were ever him standing in that gym.
THIS IS THE AMERICA I KNOW!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
A month. Thirty days of yearning, Pearl betraying me, and Father hearing about absolutely everything. I’ve never had this many people at my table. I don’t quite know what to say, so I’ll say it the Malfoid way: you’re tolerable. Deeply, wonderfully tolerable. Thank you, darlings💚
At this rate, one of my family members is going to set me up with the most racist white man alive.
Literally had a cousin-in-law suggest a Neo-Nazi. I reminded him I wasn't white, and he said that would just seal the deal.
I am so confused.
In 1912, Tokyo sent Washington 3,000 cherry trees.
You know that part.
Here's the part almost nobody in America knows.
Three years later, America sent something back. Dogwood trees. Your tree.
Japan fell in love with it.
Today the dogwood is one of the most common street trees in Japan. Every spring, millions of Japanese people walk to work under your flowers. Most of them have no idea where they came from.
One of the original trees is still alive. It stands outside a high school in Tokyo. 26 feet tall. More than 110 years old.
Then came September 11th.
A Japanese singer was so moved by what happened in New York that she wrote a song about peace, and named it after your tree.
"Hanamizuki." Dogwood.
It's a wish that the people you love will be happy for a hundred years.
It became one of the most-sung karaoke songs in Japan. My sister played it at her wedding.
So tonight, somewhere in Japan, in a tiny karaoke room, someone is singing about an American tree, born from an American tragedy, wishing someone a hundred happy years.
America, you gave us a tree.
We gave it a song.