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Beautiful story here & how 1 kind word can change someone's life in an instant! Even a Hello holding the door at the store for a stranger, who was contemplating taken their life! Always be kind as we have no idea someone else's battles daily! Thank You Marc for Your Service 🇺🇸 Rest in Paradise Soldier
thank you Mark for being a fine person. I thank you for your service . i am retired coast guard and it would have been a blessing to you Mark I wish you a happy holiday because I know where you are peace to you brother and your family.
This is beautiful. I cried..So much. Even if you don't like someone who talks way too much, You'll end up seeing them in the future and regret that time you hated them. Life is a journey.
As a high school teacher of over thirty -plus years, I appreciate this story. Young men and women are so very special, and give so very much to their teachers when asked to do so. My life was made better by their gifts, thank you for sharing this story.
Extremely sad to have read this...Rest in Paradise, Mark. I am just so surprised, no one ever said anything to the teacher, it is WRONG, who the heck was she to put tape over his mouth...that's just not right. More meaningful to me, about this story, is that Mark obviously looked past the incident and has more integrity than this teacher. A hero, not only for serving our country, but also, for keeping his composure to never be disrespectful to the teacher, but for being strong against being humiliated and even a form of abuse. God bless you, Soldier...
My 7th grade Latin teacher had “Journal Time” in her class every week. She’d put a phrase in Latin on the board, translated to English, and ask us to write about what it meant personally to us. She wouldn’t read it if we asked her not to, but otherwise would read every single person’s journal and write a reply to them. I always wrote on subject because they were so interesting, except for one time I was hurting because the kids were giving me a hard time earlier that day and wrote about that. I remember she said she was sorry that they were doing that, I didn’t deserve that, and that she couldn’t tell me who because of the confidentiality on the journals, but one person in the class often wrote about how I refused to let my classmates change me even though they gave me a hard time and I stuck up for other people I saw getting bullied even though I knew it meant they’d then focus on me. This person wished they could do what I did and thought I was very brave-and she my teacher-thought so too. That meant the world to me. I still have that journal among my special things.
This has to be one of the *most* beautiful things, that I think I have, and will, ever read. The world needs more people like these. We all need them, mire than we think.
BTS MADE ME BALD Yeah.... this generation is actually half and half, in my opinion. Half of us try our best, constantly discouraged by the fact that people expect us to be nasty little brats. Know why? The other half of us gets more attention. It's sad. I hate it. I absolutely hate it. How can I possibly amount to anything, do anything, _be_ anything, if every good thing I do goes unnoticed.... and the one moment, the one moment I slip, I get screamed at, hatred shoved in my face, my existance's importance questioned. Truly, truly, - I suppose it means we must try all the harder, if not for ourselves, then for others just like us in the way that they are great people, hidden and burried by the avalanche of garbage that takes up a huge small half of our generation. OK IT WAS SUCH A SERIOUS MOMENT, I WAS THINKING QUITE DEEPLY INTO THE MATTER, BUT THEN I READ YOUR USERNAME AND SNORTED
The ending made me cry because I usually fight with my mom a lot and I don’t say “I love you” much. My mom was at the supermarket and as soon as she came back I hugged her. This video reminded me that one action can make a big difference. Thanks for making this video :) god bless you world, mom and dad, everyone in the comment section, brothers and sister, and God bless my family. When I say “Family” I mean everyone.
When I was in Vietnam, I knew a guy who was killed in action. He reminds me so much of the student in this story. He was from a small town in Alabama, so I'm certain it wasn't the same person. But you never forget people like that.
Jake Low Oh wow that's the exact same thing I thought! Which was why it wasn't as sad for me as it was supposed to be.. Still pretty sad though. (No, no, I'm not crying. It's just raining on my face!)
I heard this story in fifth grade right before everyone in the class made our own lists. We did it differently by passing papers around the room that had a classmate's name on it. We did this on a Friday when a substitute was in the class with us. I didn't get to all of them and some of them were hard to write positive things on because I had a negative relationship with them. I still did my best and I regret that I didn't keep my list. I had planned to keep it but I soon lost it. I don't remember what it said on the list but I do remember how good it made me feel. It was one of the best days of my life. I always believed the teacher in the story to my fifth grade teacher but now I'm not so sure. I hope it is though because it makes her more amazing than I already thought she was the way she could influence so many people like that.
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Pixiewings 6253 We did the same thing. We also drew our hands on the paper with our name before letting others write messages. I was missing at school that day but one of my classmates decided to take another sheet of paper, drew a heart on it and sent it around the room with my name so I could have my own list as well. One of the nicest things anyone ever did for me, really.
Especially...................when arguing with someone. If you really love a person, that love is still there when you are angry. Before you part ways--always verbalize that!!!
Shawne Harmer That is the Truth! Do not hold a grudge to family, or friends, be better than that! ....Life is too short for holding grudges, show your Love where it counts! ❤️🤗👍🏻
Oh my gosh.. this brought tears to my eyes. Bless the teacher for making the students feel happy about each other, and helping them keep going in life. Mark has shown to be a wonderful man, and shouldn't have been killed in another rich mans' war. Thank you for sharing that, Sister..
I think I've heard this story before, in Sunday school when I was a kid. I didn't quite get its full impact at the time, but when I watched this video I actually cried. I almost never cry at RU-vid videos, but the teacher is right-if you see good in someone, you should let them know. It's like a fortune cookie I got one time, saying, "Compliment three people every day." This turns out to be a bit more of a challenge than I thought it would be, but making kindness a daily practice is good for the soul. Especially if you mean it.
God Bless Mark for his service to protect and keep our country and all the people who live in it free and safe from all who want to do us harm.May Mark Rest In Peace In Heaven with God and all his Angel's which Mark is one and now Mark you can talk all you want for eternity.THANK YOU MARK for your selfless sacrifice for all of us May God bless you and welcome you in to Heaven with open arms and keep you safe.Amem.
Thank for Sharing. God Bless the Teacher for her ,Heart and soul by Teaching Goodness to her Students. RIP Mark ,Txs for Your Service As Well . As Well As Mark's Family, you Raised him With Goodness in his Heart. Great way for Fellow Classmates,For There Kindness . For All the,Stuff in Exercise of this Story. Of course,Teacher as Well. God Bless you,All.♡☆♡
But don't say God bless her if she dared to do something rude like taping a boy's mouth like a hostage!! Weird, who would do that? Also, his full name is Mark Eklund
I lost my best friend in a house fire when I was in grade 7. I wasn’t allowed to go to his place for the weekend and I have always wondered why and how things happen. This video breaks my heart. A real friend is worth more then anything in the world.
This reminds me of my grandpa. I never saw him,he died before I was born. I wish I could meet him. I just want to tell you that you are special, amazing, important and and amazing.
I had a teacher have our 6 grade class do this.except she had us put the paper in our our back and we walked around writing on each other's backs. I still have mine. I'm 49.
I never met this young man but this killed. Couldn't stop crying. This opened a wound about my cousin who went to Vietnam and came back different. We lost track of him because he moved to California. Many years later my aunt hired a detective found out he died out there with no family.Even now it hurts. This beautiful video hurts too. GOD BLESS THEM BOTH.And all the military men + women out there.
Mark was a Sacrificial person I so wished he could have lived his life for a long time. I cried my Eye's out. Rip Mark your mother truly raised a beautiful young man.
One of my friends passed away recently due to an asthma attack. I met her this year in high school. She was so funny and kind to everyone. I should’ve told her how much I appreciated her and how much I loved her. I realized that anyone can die any day. This video was truly beautiful. We all should appreciate the ones we care for now before it’s too late.
So heartbreaking and sad. It reminds me of my aunt Karen who passed away a couple Januaries ago. She had a stroke while she was in the doctor's office. She was fine for several days after that, but then she suddenly got very sick. She died a few days later. Me and my parents had visited her a couple weeks before she died. We had driven all the way up from Florida. I assumed she would recover and I would see her again during the summer, but when I heard that she had passed away, I was devastated. I realized after that that you really do have to enjoy the time you have with loved ones. Because, you really don't know when you could lose them.
K. Smith So true! I'm really sorry for your aunt! I hope you have gotten over the crushing misery..😖 I'm going to cherish my time with my dear ones.. Because they could be gone in the blink of an eye. And please excuse my English, it's not my first language 🙂
I was once told by a teacher that we are like a boat moving up a river. Everything up front shows no sign of our passing, but behind us, the wake has an impact of the shore line, setting things rocking He said that life is a lot like that, we never know what impact we have of things around us, but beware, we always make an impact - I've never forgotten that bit of philosophy
@@ashyokami9065 the funniest thing is my so, mom, and I were hugging the dog earlier. My son said she was adorable. I said yes like a furry potato with eyes. He said that was a bad analogy. I said it was because as soon as I saic it I saw a flurry potato with eyes. My son said potatoes have eyes and I said no what i saw was like human eyes and I imagined this furry potato staring at me with human eyes holding a knife and saying you think you want go eat me huh? It is so uncanny that tonight of all nights about an hour after this you reply. Yes i feel better. My imagination is coming back for sure anyway.
Wei Joon Lim I used to know a guy named mark, back when I was in the first or second grade. This story reminds me of when we did something like this in 7 grade...😭 Even more sad cause I relate to this...😿😭😭😭😭😭
I'm soo sorry Mark!..May God bless your very soul forever to eternity... wonderful video, but please try to slow the print down or enlarge it because I had to watch it three times before I knew what happened. Thanks for sharing this wonderful but heart-wrenching tearful story of Mark!
I cried so much, that was a brave and beautiful thing to share with world, thank you. I haven't cried like this for a long time, probably the last time was when my dad was posted to Dubai for 7 months. (he's in the Australian air force)
Omg my teacher did something like this 2 times each end of the year. She said to write our names on a sheet of paper and our classmates would write something nice about us on our paper with our name on it as we passed it all around the classroom. This story was still so sad. I cried. 😭
ChimChim Jams I remember in primary my teacher said to write something nice about your classmates and give it to them😀 everyone did as they were told they wrote stuff on thier piece of paper and give to each other😊i give mines to everyone but I never got anything
ChimChim Jams my teacher too. But then one person drew a picture of a guy pointing a gun at someone and it was like pay attention to the picture so I think that person wants me dead and I threw the paper away.
It's very true to care and say you love your family/friends before it's too late. The future holds many things, which bring death or happiness. You never know what's going to happen next. One moment you think you know everything that's going to happen and the next, your clueless. Bad things can happen and you won't predict it. So it's important to love your family/friends when you have the chance because, you don't know what gonna happen next. :) ^-^ :D
Wrong comment but it is true that you don't know what will happen I am 1 of 2 so twins and if my brother Ryder died It would remain my life cuz we love each other and we nether fight
Real closed heart you have there. It reminds me of when I ran a daycare. One of my workers dad, who was a Sheriff's deputy, would come in at lunch everyday, AND EVERYDAY, kids would run up to him hugging on him, trying to get his attention (because at their very young ages they actually still looked up to cops), and EVERYDAY, he would push them away, saying things like, "GET AWAY FROM ME! I DON'T LIKE KIDS UNLESS THEY'RE MY OWN grandkids!" So he'd push them away hollering at them, and then scoop up his own grandkids. After he made one of the little ones (3 years old) cry, I told him he was "banned from the property until he LEARNED how you treat people, let alone kids"! I never liked him anyway, as it was a church daycare and he was unfortunately part of the congregation. I couldn't keep him from going to church but I COULD AND DID keep him from coming up to the daycare on a weekday when the church was closed off and the daycare was open. Not a good example of empathy OR LOVE toward others who AREN'T "reserved for close family members".
I assume you mean the letters and not the tape. Also, kids are not taught respect these days. It would be much harder to do now. People would write hateful things. Adults should have the brains to do it now...write letters to those you love and appreciate and tell them what you like, value, appreciate.....and leave out anything and everything negative. Just tell them what you'd like them to know if you didn't see them again.
perhaps something in someone's life was too big, too heavy to handle; for this moment. And I hope and pray that it will become bearable and enlightened and maybe turn into good memories and life.
I lost my husband six years ago and we said I love you every day. I will always be glad of that. It makes you realize that little things mean nothing and love, respect and happiness is all. I am grateful to my friends and family who show SO much love.
Natalie porter...I am so very sorry for your loss, but you are absolutely correct in saying that you are "grateful" to your friends and family who show "SO" MUCH LOVE! I feel the very same way! Blessings to you!
This needs to be shown to everyone in the world and then maybe people will release how if you do one good thing it will spark a whole lot of good and that you can’t all ways let people do good for you..... if you’re one of these people that spread good I wish I could shake your hand
I think Mark is one of those people. Who is just so full of life? And joy and happiness. He obviously appreciated everything he had. And he always remembered. I'm kept that paper. Because it meant so much to him. . God bless you mark.
Sister Helen Mrosla, a Franciscan nun, submitted "All the Good Things" to Proteus, A Journal of Ideas in 1991. Her article also appeared in Reader's Digest that same year, was reprinted in the original Chicken Soup for the Soul book in 1993, and was offered yet again in 1996's Stories for the Heart. Sister Mrosla first met Mark Eklund in her third-grade classroom at St. Mary's School in Morris, Minnesota, in 1959, and she encountered him again in 1965 when she served as his junior high math teacher. In April 1971, Mark was sent to Vietnam and assigned to the 585th Transportation Company in Phu Bai where he worked in a truck parts depot, and he kept in touch with his family and friends (including Sister Mrosla) through letters. In August 1971, as she was returning from a vacation, Sister Mrosla learned of Mark's death from her parents. (Although he died in Vietnam, Mark Eklund was not killed in combat -he died in his sleep of a pulmonary and cerebral edema.)
Well... for what it is worth now. I fell out with my family around twenty five years ago. Totally ignored them. When I found out that my dad had died, I pushed it aside and never attended the funeral. Two years later, my mum died. I loved my dad but never had any sort of relationship with my mum. She made it quite clear she disliked me because I had distanced myself from the family. However, the mutual ill feeling went way further back than that. I am now back in touch with my lovely brothers and sisters and could not be happier. But I so regret not saying goodbye to dad. Perhaps I could have built some sort of relationship with mum, but it may have been a false facade for other people. The point is, I missed the chance to see dad before he died and say how much I loved him. Don't take the present for grated. It doesn't last and the future will be full of regrets. Have a nice life people x
Some of us have had no choice but to remove our ‘parents’ from our lives, sometimes they are actively planning to end our lives and fleeing becomes a matter of life or death. That is my story.
@@dotdashdotdash So sorry to hear that. I hope you have managed to build a life for yourself. I often think of this poem www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/this-be-the-verse
Vaan ....thank you for taking tge time toturn your regrets into good....see both your parents in the eyes of others and hear their voices in the love of all around you.....dis appointment is always about unmet, unexpressed expectations you now have time and wisdom to voice them and grace to understand and bridge yours and others heartbreak use your open, broken heart to guide your smile all my love
After I watched this, I called my crush and told him that I liked him, and he said he liked me back. A few days later, I got notified that he died in a car crash, and I cryed for the rest of the day. I just want to say thank you for sharing this, and I'm glad I got to tell the person I love how special they are before I didn't have the chance.
This was truly breathtaking. Me and my best friend almost cried(Well she did. I was holding myself back). Mark's story is one to remember always. One to think about and smile. One to read about and then cry.
The teacher was very wrong by taping marks mouth shut I wonder if he regret it afterwards. However despite this act Mark accepted it very well and still thank a teacher for correcting him that's the only wrong thing that I can see that the teacher did, other than that I think he really had a good heart and meant well it was so sweet that the students kept their list this was very emotional as I was reading before Mark departed from the world he passed on knowing how much he was loved and appreciated by his classmates and family. This just goes to show tomorrow is never guaranteed for anyone so let's all try to be positive kind and most of all tell our family and friends how much we appreciate them. Since I am somewhat visually impaired it took me awhile to read the entire story I had to keep pausing the video but I'm so glad I did this was so heartwarming and very inspirational.
bluetech7753 And I hope your life is a happy one too! That was awesome of you to read the whole thing even though you are visually impaired.. I'm not offering sympathy here, just genuine respect. I hope everyone lives a happy life appreciating others and knowing how others feel about them.
Carolann Bullard you are welcome , I'm sure he really was even with autism sometimes it seems like they are just so special and so perfect and he had a very outstanding teacher from what I read in this story. I wish Society could learn from Mark most typical students would usually bad mouth are rebelling against the teacher but he thanked the teacher for correcting him so sad that Mark had to pass away it seems a god takes all of the best people from this world. But looking on the bright side a wonderful outstanding angel of God has returned home so I have a little bit of happiness and praise for that. And so I say Mark is definitely somebody that I wish I could have known and met in real life.
Some fifteen years ago, we went through this exercise at an eating disorder clinic. I still have my lists with me and will have them the rest of my life.
After the first 2-3 minutes, it is inevitable that Mark is going to die young. These inspiring stories most times have a common thread or morale to the story. If the person is affable or altruistic, they normally expire towards the middle or end of the saga. Truly a tear jerker. It truly is ashame that most of us never really learn from such a beautiful story. It touches our hearts and minds momentarily, then we are on to the next thing vying for our attention. Wouldn't it be great to make kindness and compassion a day-to-day, hour-to-hour, then minute-to-minute goal? Be kind to your enemies, "love those who despise us and persecute us"...is it even possible? Jesus Christ told us it is possible, and he expects this from all of us.
Tell each dog you own this as well... that you love them and will protect them. Even if they are hard to love, you are responsible for protecting them. And you will always remember it...
I was expecting Mark to have some sort of mental issue where he constantly forgets things so he was thanking the nun for correcting him constantly and putting up with him. The end of the story had absolutely nothing to do with Mark being told to be quiet.
Krac Attic yes it did. The one time everyone wanted mark to speak he didn't.. and he couldn't, the cheerful loud boy they all knew had turned into a strong and compassionate MAN. sadly, his time had ended
Cookie Llama Wow, what a clever reply -.- I was just saying what it sounded like you meant. I didn’t mean anything from it. But, if you’d like to stand there and insult me like a 3 year old, be my guest.
That was so moving. It rained the day my dad passed away, and I believe it’s a sign from heaven. A sign that God has not forgotten the loved ones left behind. I believe Mark is happy, and well now.
Such a wonderful story of A very special young man it's extremely sad and my heart goes out to his family, Although the pride they must feel for their son must be enormous, may God bless Mark and keep him safe, he lives on in heaven knowing how much he was loved and still is , and thank you teacher for that important lesson. Don't be afraid to tell the ones you love That you love them , the world will be a happier place for it.
Greeting from the UK. I'm an old man with grown up children and this made me cry like a baby. I hope you will not be offended if I say Thank you for this dear sister. God bless
Did my eyes just take a trip to the gym because after i was done with this video it was leaking like rain? Also, did my stomach go on the slingshot ride because it isnt moving...
This really reminds me of Chester Bennington’s death. Even though it was suicide, it shows how time can move so fast - You could say it wasn’t Chester’s time but no one can predict the future... yet. RIP MARK 🌂 RIP CHESTER 💧 I’ll stop ranting, but don’t forget death is a serious subject and suicide is worse: no one should be thinking about suicide, tell someone if you’re thinking of suicidal thoughts - I’ve been through it too - It’s not an easy thing to get over also it’s worse with symptoms like depression and addictions.
Dragon Stryke ok so Chester had suffered from depression since he was a kid. He had coped with drug addiction and sexual abuse. In his late teen years he joined linkin park, at the time being homeless - also the band was called Xero at the time. The time went and the band name was changed to Lincoln Park but then they settled with Linkin Park. Skip ahead wayyy forward in time, July 20th, Chester hung himself in his house: he left behind a wife, 6 kids and friends and family etc. You might wanna google the details because I’m tearing up now typing about it.
Thank you so much for sharing your story of this beautiful young man. And thank you for the difference you made in each of those kids lives. Rest in peace Mark.🙏🙏
