What a tragedy! The whole country is mourning the passing. … See More

His number shows up on back tags, on rear windows, on the inside brims of hats. Time keeps moving, as it always does, but when the anthem plays and hats come off, there’s a pause that doesn’t belong to the music. It belongs to a kid who left everything he had in the dirt, and somehow, even in leaving, taught everyone else what it meant to hold on.