I received an e-mail from a parent many years after I had her child as a middle school student.

She spent a lot of time seeking me out since I moved on a number of years later.

Her son wanted to let me know that if anything happened to him while he was deployed during the Iraq war, my Band he was a member of was a very special and important class to him.

No rating, trophy, or other award comes near to the emotional impact this left on me.