Honoring his word

Sometimes you have to sit out a baseball game.

My son was one of the students who chose to honor their commitment to their prom dates and miss the Ferris baseball game. Anyone who knows him would tell you he would rather have been at a baseball game than squeezing into a tuxedo, but he realized he had made another promise long before this game was scheduled and he had enough character to honor it.

For the hall of fame coach to imply that the absence of these young men somehow jeopardized the season is absurd. All sat on the bench the entire year and they would have sat on the bench for this game and he knows it.

We could not be more proud of our son. He is at peace with his decision and so are we. He understands we are sometimes faced with difficult choices, that personal commitment doesn’t end with the final out, and that integrity extends beyond the boundaries of a sports field.

It speaks to the character of one who would spoon-feed a self-serving article like this to your writer in a transparent attempt to publicly disparage these young men, and to the integrity of your columnist for accommodating him.

They should both be ashamed.

W. R. Heiskell

Spokane