winner of american idol. season 21. and i owe it all to my mom, to my dad, and ye. there are a lot of, i m gonna say kids, cause i have years on you, there s a lot of kids your age that don t have this kind of humility. and don t really have this respect for how much their parents have done for them, how much their parents have inspired them. i know you just graduated from high school two days ago, did you have any type of special message for your graduating class, and for the rest of these graduating seniors from the year 2023? yeah, you know, i always say this, but, just to do what you love. and do your best. and have fun. before i let you go, tomorrow is going to be father s day. what do you have to say, or
well, ma am, i guess it is quite simple. the athletic department every year asks graduating seniors to write a letter to themselves reflecting on their experience at the academy and then they publish that as inspiration for incoming recruits or younger athletes on the team. it was somewhat of an assignment, i guess. dana: how different might your experience have been if you had known the things you know now when you started four years ago? well, i think probably my maybe my class rank wouldn t have been as high and maybe things would have shaken out differently what my first duty assignment was or what job i got. not that there is any regret. i think i look back and i would have a lot more experience that, you know, i really valued. as i graduated a lot of the bad memories flew away and just the good memories that are left.
was a big surprise for the graduating seniors at the university of massachusetts boston as diplomas were being handed out yesterday commencement speaker rob hale announced he was giving each graduate $1,000. it was broken into two envelopes for each person, hale said that the first $500 was a gift to each student, a celebration for all of them and how they got to this day. and the second $500 he said was for the students to give to someone else, an organization or a cause who could use it more than them. rahel? sort.kay. terrifying moments in the skies above south korea today. investigators are a door on thi in the middle of the flight. just as the plane was about to land. incredible. you can see the terrifying