There is not a child in my classroom that does not know that I’m a Shriner what would this fraction right here be 310 310 if you love something that much you’re going to share it and I’m just fortunate enough I get to share it with 10-year-olds every Day I could tell you right now I have close to 2,000 men I could call right now and have them here if you needed them that’s a Brotherhood in in my mind I saw firsthand the brotherly love and assistance that that the shrine can offer probably about 10 minutes away
From home and my sister-in-law called my wife and they were talking going down there and she said your house is on fire we got there about 30 minutes before everything was gone I mean we literally had what we had on is all we had to our name I’m
Sorry it’s hard to put that in words um it’s one of those things where there’s numbness that was a real tragic point in our Lives finally I I looked down at my phone and I had almost a hundred either phone calls or text messages or emails on my phone and I’m looking at probably 909 % of them were from Shriners there were so many people and so many um groups of guys that that came
And helped and it was more than anybody could ever ask for everyone within our jurisdiction of our brothers here and our fellow Shriners reached out to kurk and uh we made what uh was a very terrible situation in our life just a little bit more comforting it wasn’t expected but
They took care of me because that’s what we do you want to be a Shriner what’s your name my name is John R John row let me see people that we have up here that are my brothers and are are my fellow Nobles uh they’re people that I do business
With they’re the people that I I grew up with uh people that I know from within my community and the beauty of being a Shriner you can go anywhere in the world and you’ve always got a friend and you got a brother you you walk in and you
Know you have a family there it’s something that you can do that you can experience true Brotherhood
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