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mfcorey1

(11,001 posts) Mon Nov 25, 2013, 08:58 AM Nov 2013

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2512633/Kindness-suits-Moment-fifth-grade-football-team-rallies-bullied-special-needs-waterboy-likes-wear-jackets-ties-dressing-like-him.html

Danny Keefe, a first-grader from Bridgewater, Massachusetts, who suffers from a speech impediment, has become the target of bullies who called him a baby and ridiculed him for wearing a suit and tie to school.

So, members of the Williams Intermediate School fifth-grade football team, where Danny is a waterboy, banded together to send a clear message to the boy's tormentors by dressing up like him and holding a Danny Appreciation Day.

When Danny was a week old, he suffered a brain hemorrhage that resulted in apraxia of speech - a disorder in which a person has trouble saying what he or she wants to say correctly and consistently.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2512633/Kindness-suits-Moment-fifth-grade-football-team-rallies-bullied-special-needs-waterboy-likes-wear-jackets-ties-dressing-like-him.html#ixzz2lc8vfUko