“I’ve always been a rule follower. When they said not to chew gum, I didn’t chew gum. When they said not to use your cellphone, I didn’t use my cellphone. But today, in the spirit of defying expectations, and for perhaps the last time at this podium, I say..."
Early College High School valedictorian Alem Hadzic has gone viral after he took the stage at his graduation ceremony to deliver his speech—just hours after his father's funeral.
Just seven days after it became the scene of the deadliest shooting in Texas history, First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, reopened its doors on Sunday to commemorate the 26 lives lost just one week prior.
Ryland’s uncle Michael Ward told The New York Daily News that he carried his nephew out of the church following the attack, where a helicopter rushed him to the hospital. According to the outlet, he’d found the child “clinging to a church pew” after the shooting.
