We have a couple of feel good stories that hopefully get your week off to a good start.
First, in Riverside, California, an entire police department escorted the daughter of a fallen officer to her prom.
Detective Doug Jacobs died in the line of duty when his daughter Rachel was just six-months-old.
To Rachel’s surprise, Detective Jacobs’ colleagues showed up at her house with a full police escort, including an air unit to give her and her date an incredible send-off.
The officers also gave her date “a talking-to” before giving the couple the grand send-off.
Other police departments around the country have extended the same courtesy for other teenagers attending their proms.
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It’s been a year since Navy SEAL Charles Keating IV was killed in Iraq. His mother has put that time to good use by publishing a book honoring his memory.
In “Big-Hearted Charlie Runs The Mile,” Krista Keating-Joseph tells the story of a young kid who keeps working hard until he is able to reach his goal of running the mile.
Keating-Joseph said on “Fox & Friends” that every book sold is a small testament to Charlie’s memory.
She said, “He was a little kid with a big heart.” She said that like Charlie in the book, her late son was a small-statured boy who never gave up until he reached his goals.
Charlie was stationed in Iraq twice before he was killed in May 2016.
The only hint the reader gets that the real Charlie gave his life for his country is the notation in her biography that she is a Gold Star mother.