DMN Texan of the Year: Roy Velez

Dallas Morning News ^ | 12/30/2006

[thestob]

LUBBOCK, Texas - It happens almost daily. A stranger reaches out to comfort Roy Velez, unintended symbol of unspeakable loss and grief.

Today it’s a woman who approaches as he’s halfway through breakfast at Montelongo’s Mexican restaurant. Also Online

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“My brother told me about you and your sons,” she says, extending her hand.

He takes her small hand between his - this sturdy man who has buried two boys who went off to war - and listens gently as her own story of sorrow spills forth. Her 8-year-old daughter, a traffic accident, her son at the wheel.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

I know it has cost us a lot of lives, including my two sons, and it has taken a toll on America, but we can’t walk away from this war until we’re finished.

Thanks for the tagline, Mr. Velez.

[thestob]

this is a good man

[hispanarepublicana]

Thanks for posting this.
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