My Eight Year Old Son Was Teased for His Duct Taped Sneakers Then the Principal Called Me One Morning

He had been a firefighter for eleven years when he died, and before that he had wanted to be one for as long as anyone in his family could remember. His mother told me once that he had drawn pictures of fire trucks before he could spell his own name. He was not a man who arrived at his calling the way some people do, through process of elimination continue reading …