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The story of Vietnam soldier Mark Elklund has a message for all of us.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

At Saint Mary\u2019s Catholic School in Morris, Minnesota, there was a third grade class.\u00a0 The Sister teaching the students in the class loved all of them, but one student was very special.<\/p>\n

Mark Elklund always looked very neat and had a happy-to-be-alive attitude that made even his mischievousness delightful to his teacher. But he also talked incessantly.\u00a0 Every time, his teacher corrected him for talking in class, he would say very sincerely, \u201cThank you for correcting me, Sister\u201d.<\/h5>\n

Having heard Mark\u2019s response to her correction too many times, one day her patience grew thin and she made a novice teacher\u2019s mistake. She looked at Mark and said, \u201cIf you say one more word, I am going to tape your mouth shut!\u201d\u00a0 Not even ten seconds later, another student named Chuck blurted out, \u201cMark is talking again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since Mark\u2019s teacher had stated the punishment in front of the class, she had to act on it.\u00a0 She opened her desk drawer, removed the tape, and then she walked to Mark\u2019s desk and placed two pieces of tape in the shape of an X across his mouth.<\/h5>\n

After her return to the front of the class, the teacher glanced at Mark to make sure he was okay.\u00a0 Then he winked at her and she started laughing. The entire class cheered as she walked back to Mark\u2019s desk, removed the tape, and shrugged her shoulders.\u00a0 Mark\u2019s first words were, \u201cThank you for correcting me, Sister.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few years later, his third grade teacher moved up to teach ninth grade math.\u00a0 And a few years after that, she got Mark again.\u00a0 He did not talk as much in the ninth grade as he had in the third.<\/p>\n

One Friday, the mood in Mark\u2019s math class was not right.\u00a0 The class had worked hard all week on a concept in the \u201cnew math\u201d, and all of the students were frustrated with themselves and edgy with each other.<\/p>\n

The teacher had to change the mood in her classroom.\u00a0 She asked each of her students to take out a piece of paper and list the names of the other students in the class, leaving a space between each name. Then she instructed them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each classmate and write it down.<\/p>\n

That Saturday, the teacher wrote the name of each student on a piece of paper and copied what everyone else had said about each other.<\/h5>\n

On Monday, she gave each student his list.\u00a0 Before long, every student was smiling.\u00a0 She heard her students saying, \u201cReally?\u00a0 I never knew that meant anything to anyone\u201d and \u201cI didn\u2019t know others liked me so much\u201d. She knew the lists had changed the mood in the class.<\/p>\n

None of the students ever mentioned those lists again in class. However, years later Mark Elklund died as a soldier in Vietnam and his parents insisted that the ninth grade math teacher attend the funeral.<\/h5>\n

Looking at Mark Elklund in his uniform in his coffin, she only had one thought.\u00a0 \u201cMark, I would give all the tape in the world if only you would talk to me again.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the funeral, Mark\u2019s former ninth grade classmates headed to Chuck\u2019s farmhouse for lunch. There Mark\u2019s parents invited her into a separate room in which she found the students in Mark\u2019s 9th<\/sup> grade math class gathered.\u00a0 His parents showed her a tattered and torn piece of paper that had been taped many times that had been found in Mark\u2019s wallet when he died.\u00a0 It was his list from math class.\u00a0 And each of his classmates had kept theirs too. Each former student told the Sister how much their lists meant to them and thanked her.<\/p>\n

Vietnam may in the past for most of us, but this message in this story still holds true.\u00a0 Please tell the people you care about how you feel about them before it is too late.<\/p>\n

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