He composed a very nice letter to the President and I sent it to the White House. Never received a response, but that wasn’t the point.
At the nine month point into his car-washing detail, as I was rotating out of that command, I spoke with our Petty Officer First Class in charge of that station. The young man had shown up every Saturday to that point (he lived a few hundred yards away). He was even bringing his younger brother with him; the guys would feed them lunch and spend a lot of time talking with them after washing the vehicles. I do not know if they joined the Navy, but would be surprised if they hadn’t. At any rate, I knew they had some of the best ‘father figures’ and mentors they could ever have hoped to have.
Awesome!
Very well done. You most likely kept him out of prison and very well saved that young man’s life.
Well, when he started bringing his younger brother with him, that tells it all.
You guys did a wonderful thing for him, no matter what happened afterwards.