Jacob Flynn, an All-Class LL football player at Southington High, was surprised by UConn coach Jim Mora when he was awarded a scholarship over the weekend.
want you to worry. but worry they did. she would call me and we would talk about things. and then she would call me again an hour later and she wouldn t remember anything that we talked about. it got so that tammie sometimes didn t pick up when her mother called. but of course she had no idea what was about to happen, least of all, one april night in 2000. mom had started calling my house, and i was letting it go to the voicemail. and all the messages were pretty much the same, that she loved me, she found god, everything was fine. tammie waited until morning to call back. it was april 5. and ken answered the phone. and he said, i don t know what s wrong with your mother. here, you talk to her. i said, hi mom, it s tammie. i said are you okay? and she said. i love you. her words were very drawn out and slurred, like i d never heard before. what was that like, that conversation, for you at your
in the months following leases murder, her son, dylan, had to come to terms as best as he could, with that terrible day. and the man he once called that. do you believe scott patterson murdered your mother? i do. press the bar into a throat? yes sir. why? agreed. money. stuff that really means nothing, in the end. stuff that means nothing. dylan, by all accounts is doing well. with the steady support of friends, and his mother s family, he s doing his best to navigate life without his guiding stone. the worst part is not hearing i love you from her. not hearing her words of encouragement. you know, hey, you re an awesome kid, keep up the good work. was he stolen from you? my precious lisa. just smile. it would call me. every morning she would say, hi mom,.
holiday that will join the others of our national celebrations. our independence. our laborers who built this nation and those that died in the defense. the first new national holiday since martin luther king holiday nearly four decades ago. i m grateful to the members of congress here today, in particular, the congressional black caucus that did so much to make this day possible and we showed the nation that we can come together as democrats and republicans to did commemorate this day. i hope this is a beginning of a change in the way we deal with one another. we re blessed to mark the day that the miss opal lee. as i mom would say, god love