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My Brother, My Hero

Submitted by: MaryTrumbull CT

My older brother, Joey, owns a really successful business here in town. He is an environmental spill contractor. He spends his days saving the planet.  Well, besides the obvious career choices Joe has made for himself, there is so much more below the surface that also makes him a great steward and a great man.  I would like to point out that Joey has worked hard his entire childhood with our family business, even when he was 12, he would help his friends by getting them to work with him.

He would take a pay cut so that his friends would be able to enjoy the things in life that our father made possible for us.  He found the time to become a volunteer firefighter when he turned 18, just like his grandfather did.  He's since grown up, and he lives on a farm in Easton where he still finds the time to be a volunteer firefighter.

On his farm, he has a small petting zoo - not for his children, not for himself, but for his neighbors kids, for the children of his company's employees, and for his family.  He also gives much of his crops to the local senior center, not because he has too much, because he knows it's right to take care of each other as we would want to be taken care of.  When the towers fell in New York City, my brother did not ask what he could do, he did not worry about his company not having it's president, he was on his way there before any of us even sorted out what had happened.  Joey spent the next two weeks digging by hand ... not for glory ... not for himself ... but because he knew in his heart that God had given him the tools to do what he needed to do.

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