Sheriff's Deputies Escort Boy to School After His Father Was Killed in the Line of Duty
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"Seeing his reaction when he saw us made everything worth it," Sgt. Charles Hewell said.
The Sheriff's Department in Hall County, Georgia rallied together this week to make one little boy's first day of school very special.
Nicolas Blane Dixon, 28, was killed in the line of duty in July, exactly one month before his 9-year-old son Caden would embark on his first day of the fourth grade.
Sgt. Charles Hewell told CNN that Caden "was having a rough morning because he didn't want to go to school without his dad being there," so he and more than a dozen other officers who worked with Nicolas joined Caden and his mother Stephanie Dixon to escort him to his first day. ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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