Years before Benjamin was born, Daniel had looked at a frightened young pilot and refused to judge his future by the hardest moment of his life.
That frightened young pilot became a captain.
And on Benjamin’s first flight, when another man looked at my grandson during his hardest 10 minutes and decided he didn’t belong in the sky, Daniel’s lesson was still there.
So was the little blue airplane.
So here’s the real question: If you were in this grandmother’s position, how would you have responded to a passenger telling your overwhelmed 7-year-old grandson that he shouldn’t be flying?
If you enjoyed reading this story, here’s another one you might like: The night I let a shivering stranger sleep in my garage, I never imagined she’d remember my name. Five years later, when my boss called me into his office with that serious look on his face, I had no idea that the same woman was waiting for me on the other side of the door.
