William Jazwinski: “My heart ached for the officer as I offered my condolences.”
Upon noticing a folded flag on William’s dashboard — identical to the one the military gave him after his son passed away — the cop made an odd request to the former Army soldier.
William Jazwinski
“Do you mind stepping out and receiving a hug?” the cop asked. “You remind me of my son. I pulled you over. I thought you were him. I still don’t believe it most days he’s gone.”
William says with tears in both of their eyes, he got out of his truck and “hugged that man.”
The embrace wasn’t like two strangers simply greeting each other.
“I’m talking about for a minute or two crying,” wrote William. “Down to our knees crying.”
It was the hug that William, who had just finished a PTSD program, desperately and unknowingly needed.
William closes his post with a message “to all of the family and friends of soldiers, fighting or done fighting, God bless you.”
Land of the free because of the brave. May we all be reminded today of the great sacrifices that are made daily for our freedom.
