2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
A gala in Mississippi by the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) will this year have two off-the-charts guests: a 14-year-old teenager who was rescued from flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina and the parachutist who saved her
Since Mike Maroney rescued LaShay Brown in 2005, he has never forgotten the effusive hug she gave him. That moment, captured in a photograph that went around the world and won several awards, was a balm for the soul of Maroney in the following days since, although his joyous face in that photo (below) did not show it, he suffered of post-traumatic stress syndrome.
As reported by People magazine, after the rescue, the US Air Force sergeant major was sent back to Iraq and Afghanistan and took that photo to remember that special moment in his life. Over time, he tried to find the girl again and even launched a campaign on social networks using the hashtag #FindKatrinaGirl (#FindLetNaudyKatrina).
After 10 years of searching, he finally met her again in the fall of 2015 on The Real (FOX), where he moved the audience by confessing to Brown, “You rescued me, more than I rescued you. to you.
Since then, the young woman and her rescue worker have been in contact weekly and have developed a beautiful friendship. The military has even visited Brown and his family in Mississippi - and even taught her how to swim. Thanks to her influence, the young woman joined the JROTC program, sponsored by the Air Force, to train youth interested in joining the military reserve at a Mississippi high school.
When she learned that there would be a JROTC gala party, the girl thought that she could not have a better partner than the man who saved her life. On the impact it has had on the young girl's life, Maroney says: “Life in the service of the planet is important, whether serving in the military or as a teacher, nurse or volunteer. The service makes life much more appreciated.”
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