America Could Use a Few Million More Kids Like Jeff Sahli

These kids today, I tell ya:

Eighth-grade Evergreen Middle School student Jeff Sahli didn’t realize the meeting in the school theater would highlight his choice to keep the flag waving at the school every day. He thought it was a chance for the eighth-grade class to show off their Ferris wheel projects.

But interim principal Jane Sutera had other ideas.

“Jeff has been raising and lowering the flag outside the school every day - at his request. When the flag became tattered, his parents Cindy and Don Sahli of Evergreen, replaced it,” she said.

Sutera planned a surprise honor presentation May 15 that included a letter from the 138th Fire Brigade, 2nd Artillery battalion in Iraq.

When a member of the brigade heard about Jeff’s dedication, they flew a flag in his honor in Iraq. That flag was folded and mounted and presented to Jeff in a surprise ceremony at his school May 15.

The kids I see at my kids’ little league practice, the ones who sit on the picnic tables cussing, the ones who chat about sexual topics around five year olds, you know, the ones I run out of the park, they couldn’t understand this kid. He gives me hope for America.

We could use a few more like him. Great job to his parents, for raising such a great young man.

Hat Tip: Blackfive