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all these old friends need to be shown the video NOW
ask about the phrase "silly curl on forehead"
15 years after 9/11, remembering Todd Beamer
by Bill Haley | Sep 11, 2016
https://inthecoracle.org/2016/09/15-years-after-911-remembering-todd-beamer/
We were a great team that year, a bunch of seventh graders on a winning streak. Wheaton Christian Grammar School had their basketball juggernaut.
David, Brian, Chuck, Dave, Steve, Todd,
several other boys and me had yet to be defeated, but we were looking at our Goliath.
Vinny was the center for St. Francis Middle School, and none of us really knew if he had been held back a grade and, if so, how many times. A mustache like that just doesn’t grow on a 13 year-old, and we had yet to play anyone over 5’11 til we met Vinny.
It was to be our toughest game of the year, but we were up for it. Our star player wore number 23 before Michael Jordan did. Todd had come through in the clutch before, and we knew that he would again. We were not concerned, until Chuck left his T-shirt on the practice court the day before the big game. Todd went up for a lay-up and came down, all the way down, twisting his ankle and ensuring a rare spot on the bench for the next day. St. Francis exploited our weakness, and we lost…the only game of the season we didn’t emerge the victor. And we all knew it was because Todd hadn’t played.