This heart warming story seemed appropriate for this Memorial Day weekend when we are honoring the people that give their lives to save our freedoms. In Soldier gives his Purple Heart to student is a story of how one soldier rewarded the winner of a grade school letters-to-the-troops contest.

A soldier said he was only showing his gratitude when gave his Purple Heart to a 13-year-old student being honored for winning a contest for writing letters to American troops. "The letters mean so much to us. So I thought this was a big way of giving something back to them.

Trackey and a group of fellow Fort Drum soldiers were attending a ceremony Thursday at West Genesee Middle School for seventh-grader Fatima Faisal, of Camillus, who was being honored as a regional winner in the Veteran's of Foreign Wars' Letters to the Front contest.

After Faisal received her prizes, Trackey stood and held up his Purple Heart for everyone to see. Then, he pinned it on the girl's blouse. "I'm touched. I'm speechless," Fatima said. "This is the sweetest thing ever

Read the whole article. I hope you are as touched by the goodness of this story as I was.

Have a wonderful weekend but don't forget what it's for.