A mystery unfolded last spring along the bank of Louisiana’s Yazoo river when a salvage diver from Big River Ship Builders found a green bottle. Inside was a weathered piece of paper with a child’s writing. With few clues about who might have sent it, the company’s manager, Brad Babb, was on a mission to find the writer through social media. After thousands of views, they received a call from Eric and Melanie Dahl, the parents of the little boy who wrote the letter. Their son and author of the note, Brian, passed away 15 years ago in an accident. Melanie, Eric, and one of their sons, Chris, traveled from Mississippi to Louisiana to meet Brad’s team and share the living memories of Brian.
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You never know what can happen…
So nice that decades old school sanctioned pollution had a happy ending.
That's in Vicksburg @ the Yazoo diversion canal! Not really Louisiana
😭
That is just so sweet. I don’t believe in god, but I do believe in love, and they were given a great gift. 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗💋
GOD – is love. Not the way man loves.
His Way is far above any man's.
Praise Jesus Christ!
I think God would have had better document preservation skills..
Why did he litter in the lake? What did the note even say. That was pretty good handwriting not really childlike like the report said. Today's children never would have wrote in cursive.
Should be charged with littering
🙏❤️
Wow that truely is a miracle!😇🙏🏻
It was an SOS to the world
It was an SOS to the world
It was an SOS to the world
"There is a god and he sees fit…."
Right. This same god who saw fit to find an utterly convoluted way to return a memory in a bottle to you also see fit to let millions starve today.
The MESSAGE WAS "LOVE NEVER GOES AWAY" 🙌💓☝
Kool
What happened to the boy? How did he die?when did he write the message before death or while living with his parents for fun?? why did he write a message. The story sweet but basically all we hearing is “our son who passed away a while ago once wrote a message put it in a bottle and now someone found”not much of anything special unless there’s more to it.
01:22 my eyes rolled back so hard, they're still spinning. 😀
How Americans find proof for the existence of a god in just about everything is beyond me.
And so egoistic: of course, god sent you a sign from your dead son, instead of keeping children in other parts of the world from starving. Why would it be the other way round? Ridiculous.
Omg HOW WONDERFUL 😢☝ #BRIANSLOVE
Yes there is a god and he is one cruel dude.
There is a God. And he is extremely angry
This is the second "message in a bottle" story I've heard in as many weeks. Cause record low water levels in lakes and rivers due to climate change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdHCk2F1jh4&ab_channel=NTD
what terrible journalism I can’t believe it they didn’t tell you what was said in the letter it was all about finding it and who wrote it and saying what a wonderful thing to discover. Good reporting answers the questions who what where when and how?
Heartwarming
Wow that is so touching and heartbreaking