“He is ten years old.

He loves baseball and Sunday pancakes and he has the kindest heart of anyone I have ever known.

He has your eyes, Mr.

Vance.

But he has his mother’s heart.

He is kind the way she was kind, and brave the way she was brave, and there is not one thing of yours in him except the color of his eyes.

And as of tonight, everyone in this room knows it, and everyone watching at home knows it, and the entire world knows it.