At Night to Shine, I’ve seen what just one moment of love can do.
It’s not about the red carpet or the crowns.
It’s about someone finally realizing, maybe for the first time, they’ve always had worth.
Why? Because they’re made in the image of God.
Will we come together and not just share and express this worth once a year during Night to Shine, but every day share the love and value of people with disabilities and the vulnerable?
Tyson Bagent played college football for DII Shepherd Rams in WV
He wasn’t drafted & his first deal was a $25k signing bonus + $1.5M the last two years
He just signed a $10M extension ($5M/year) and broke down in tears, saying how many people he can help with this money👏👏
You're a 19 year old kid.
You are critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam .
Its November 14, 1965 . LZ (landing zone) X-ray.
Your unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense from 100 yards away, that your CO (commanding officer) has ordered the MedEvac helicopters to stop coming in.
You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you're not getting out.
Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you'll never see them again.
As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.
Then - over the machine gun noise - you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter.
You look up to see a Huey coming in. But.. It doesn't seem real because no MedEvac markings are on it.
Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you. He's not MedEvac so it's not his job, but he heard the radio call and decided he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway.
Even after the MedEvacs were ordered not to come. He's coming anyway. And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 3 of you at a time on board.
Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses and safety. And, he kept coming back!! 13 more times!!
Until all the wounded were out. No one knew until the mission was over that the Captain had been hit 4 times in the legs and left arm.
He took 29 of you and your buddies out that day. Some would not have made it without the Captain and his Huey.
Medal of Honor Recipient, Captain Ed Freeman, United States Army, died at the age of 81, in Boise, Idaho.
God bless our vets!
HEARTBREAKING: #Texans star QB CJ Stroud was in TEARS listening to this Make-A-Wish kid’s powerful story.
Immediately after John was born, he had to have open heart surgery.
You will cry watching this video 🥹🥹🥹
26-year-old Coast Guard rescue swimmer Scott Ruskan saved 165 lives during the Texas flash floods.
A former KPMG accountant, he coordinated Blackhawks and MH-65s to reach survivors and get them to safety.
Thomas “Hitman” Hearns vs. Roberto Duran. Duran had never been knocked out in 82 pro fights until this. Listen to the right hand at 0:46. It sounds like a fucking gunshot. Still the most perfect punch I have ever seen.
“Calm down, relax. Tell your dad I said hi.”
#Buccaneers HC Todd Bowles talks to an emotional Benjamin Morrison, son of his former teammate Darryl, in one of the better Draft calls you’ll see.