Thank you Duke Lacrosse. Thank you for showing heart, the human
spirit, grit, love, forgiveness, maturity. Thank you for not
giving up on us even though we gave up on you. Thank you for
staying in school, sticking by your friends, trusting your
parents and mentors. Thank you for forgiving so many and for
believing in an American justice system that everyone else
seemed to forget. Thank you for a great season, a life lesson,
and for holding your heads up high after today's loss in the
NCAA finals against John Hopkins. You boys fought to clear your
names and the names of your friends and today, trailing 10-4 at
halftime, fought hard to win a national championship not for
your school who gave up on you and your coach, but for each
other, for your families, your new coach, old coach, and three
teammates still searching for their next place in this world.
Watching the game all I wanted to do was thank you for your
efforts on and off the field. Human beings like yourselves are
always okay in my book, even if I only