Like many of us, I watched the unfolding horror in Nice when a man drove a truck into a crowd of people watching the fireworks celebration for their independence day. Among the 84 people who were killed there were two Americans--Sean Copeland, and his 11 year old son, Brodie. They were in Nice on a vacation with their whole family. There was a picture of Brodie lying down in the surf of the Riviera, smiing, just a few hours before he died. There was another very touching picture—a silhouette—of Brodie in his baseball uniform, looking up to his father on the pitcher’s mound. Brodie was a great little baseball player, and an actor who had played the lead role in Peter Pan in a local production. He also loved to make his own video movies. I read a quote from his fifth grade teacher. She told him at the end of the school year that she hoped he would remember her when he got his academy award sometime in the future.
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