is that mr. haji? what did he do? he saved us! he saved you! hi. how are you? good. how are you? nice to see you again. three days after the worsz day of their lives, the waltons were reunited with their hero. how are you? reporter: abdul is himself a father and a muslim. it s not lost on him that he is forever linked to a christian family that chose to live in kenya. that s what humanity is all about. it happened that i was a muslim and they were christians but at that time, what i was seeing was a little girl and her mother. i was not seeing what religion that person was. lots of emotion. as we have been able to tell this story and spend time with haji and, you know, to see the courage of a man like that, it was an inspiration for me. and blez walton said he had a new perspective. you have seen the worst of humanity and you ve seen the best of humanity. yeah, same day. just a miracle to be able to
husband phillip away on business she took her five kids to the westgate mall. it was a place where all of them could be entertained, the teens and the toddlers. her kids liked the chicken place, the candy store. it was an opportunity to walk around, kill a couple hours, and i knew that we d go home and have naps and everybody would be happy. reporter: the waltons chose to move to kenya two years earlier from texas. for katherine and philip it was like going home. they were both children of missionaries and grew up in countries in west africa. they met in boarding school in africa, married in the states and started raising their family. at the time of the attack, blaze was 14 years old, ian 10, porsche 4, gigi 2 and the baby petra just 13 months old was born in kenya. their morning at the mall unfolds just as family s might. they had lunch together in the third floor food court.
faith went home, hugged her husband and two days after the attack, there was cause for celebration and time for reflection. i m grateful first for being alive, for our children to be alive. i m grateful to be reunited with my husband. i never thought i d see our second anniversary but we did and this incident had brought us more closer. we now don t want to leave each other s sides. reporter: faith and her children were reunited with that police officer who reached out to her on that terrible day, grateful he risked his life to save theirs. hello. the waltons, too, said they were grateful for friends, new and old, especially young porsche, who beamed when we showed her a picture of her rescuer on a smart phone.
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