Fifteen days before Christmas, Detective Joseph Seals of the Jersey City Police Department was killed in the line of duty. He was thirty-nine years old, a husband, and a father to five children.
Eight days before Christmas, Laura Seals stood in the rain in Jersey City, surrounded by her children, their family, friends, loved ones, members of the Jersey City Police Department, and at least one member of every police department in New Jersey and said their goodbyes to a husband, a father, a friend, and a hero.
Last week, the New Jersey State Police and the New York Jets got together to do a little something for Laura Seals and for her children. The family traveled to the American Dream mall in East Rutherford. There, State Troopers and representatives of the Jets presented them with specially-made Jets jerseys personalized with Detective Seals' name and his badge number.
A simply beautiful thing to do. Kudos to the person or persons in those two organizations who came up with the idea and to all of those in both organizations who executed the idea so beautifully. This family, in the past thirty days, has endured more than a family should have to endure. Furthermore, they have endured it during a time of year people generally associate with happiness, family, and love. Yet for just a day - or perhaps for just a portion of it - they were free to remember what it feels like to smile.
That, in and of itself, may be a little thing but it is also indisputably a beautiful thing.
Same as it ever was.
-AK
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