In august a NYPD veteran was killed in a kayaking accident. The man had taken his five year old son out on the waters of Smithtown Bay where the kayak was overturned. The little boy was the only one wearing a life jacket and was also wearing a safety whistle, as the man struggled to hold on he handed his son his hat and told him "If you blow that whistle someone will find you, Daddy is going to go under water and not come up. I'm going to go to heaven." The little boy never talked to his mom abut what happened but he told the rescuers about his fathers final words.
This story brought me to tears. How sad for that little boy to practically watch his dad suffer moments before death. Its no wonder that little boy doesn't want to talk to his mother about it, he is probably very traumatized by it and doesn't want to make her any more sad that what I can imagine she already is. It states towards the end of the article that the mother had gotten a law passed that stated any one occupying a vessel less that fifteen feet long had to wear a life jacket. When she told the media about want to pass this law her reasoning was "My husbands whole life was about saving lives. Why shouldn't I keep doing that?" It was a story that was heartwarming and heartbreaking all at the same time. I think it is great that she got this law passed for New York, but I think it should be a year-round law all over the country.
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