My Son’s Final Wish Was to Meet the Firefighters He Adored — When We Arrived, the Captain Pulled Me Aside and Said, “Ma’am, There’s Something I Have to Tell You”

somewhere very close to my ear.

Then pain.

So much pain.

I grabbed the side of the fire truck.

“You were there?”

Captain Merritt nodded.

“I was one of the first firefighters on scene.”

For several seconds, I couldn’t say anything.

I had spent eleven years trying not to remember that night.

Joel had been driving.

We were coming home from dinner with his parents continue reading …