Proof the Magic still lives...

[Rozzie]

I am usually pretty crusty and jaded, but this story brought tears to my eyes. I really do believe that Disney Magic is still alive.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/09/10/res...sea/index.html

[PoohsPal]

Wow...

[MatterhornMiss]

I have to admit, I teared up myself.

[FR8TRN]

Very touching story and I remember seeign it on the news here, but I can't fathom allowing your son to float off like that, he should have been at his side the entire time, if he died it would be right there next to me.

[MatterhornMiss]

If I remember the story correctly, the 12 year old autistic boy was caught in a rip current and carried away from the shore. His father sway out to try and save him, but because of the current couldn't reach him. I don't think he would have let his son swim off if he could've prevented it.

[nono]

Very touching story and I remember seeign it on the news here, but I can't fathom allowing your son to float off like that, he should have been at his side the entire time, if he died it would be right there next to me.

Rosebud.

Precisely what I was thinking, Mike. But, I'm looking at this through the eyes of being a good swimmer and trained lifeguard. There are so many folks who go out in the water without decent skills, and I am guessing this Dad was one of them.

[FR8TRN]

If I remember the story correctly, the 12 year old autistic boy was caught in a rip current and carried away from the shore. His father sway out to try and save him, but because of the current couldn't reach him. I don't think he would have let his son swim off if he could've prevented it.

Oh I understood the same, but they were in the water a long time.....saving him wasn't an option, but being with him should have been.....just a father speaking.....I'd of gotten to him....or died trying.....

[FR8TRN]

Rosebud.

Precisely what I was thinking, Mike. But, I'm looking at this through the eyes of being a good swimmer and trained lifeguard. There are so many folks who go out in the water without decent skills, and I am guessing this Dad was one of them.

Yeah a good swimmer would stand a better chance.....my youngest would likely be saving me....he's a Lifeguard also.....

[Rozzie]

I consider myself a good swimmer, even used to be on a swim team about a 100 years ago. But it only takes a instant for a powerful current to take you away. I once almost fell victim to it as a child, and it was one of the scariest moments in my life. We even had a championship swim team coach here drown in the rip currents of the local island here. The boy was autistic, and his favorite thing in life was the water. What is truly amazing to me is the whole autism thing, to how it programs the brain in such a different way--that the boy could be out there that long without fear.

Anyway, I thought it was a really heartwarming story.

[nono]

I consider myself a good swimmer, even used to be on a swim team about a 100 years ago. But it only takes a instant for a powerful current to take you away. I once almost fell victim to it as a child, and it was one of the scariest moments in my life. We even had a championship swim team coach here drown in the rip currents of the local island here. The boy was autistic, and his favorite thing in life was the water. What is truly amazing to me is the whole autism thing, to how it programs the brain in such a different way--that the boy could be out there that long without fear.

Anyway, I thought it was a really heartwarming story.

I'm very disappointed in your response above. I think, if you were a Yankee, it would have read:

Mike and Nono, you are just too damn jaded.

And wrong. It was a really heartwarming story.

For this, Rozzie, you are banned from Jersey Week for 1 year.