Thank you, Sonia, for sharing such a touching story that drives home the great need for adults to step up to the serving nature of leadership and set an example for young people to follow.  Young folks need real heroes in their life, heroes that are somehow connected to them and care for them.  They need heroes who are other-centered.  And they need heroes who are not afraid to ask tough questions like, "Why can't leadership ALWAYS be about playing together rather than against one another?"  Our young people need their community, and they need their community to embrace them.  It should come as no surprise our young people are also in desperate need of community leaders to show them the way; leaders who, to borrow the words of the ancient Greeks, make gentle the life of their world.  When all is said and done, it seems to me all of us, young and old alike, share many of the same needs.  Chief among them is our desire for true leadership, a leadership that finds room for everyone, a leadership that loves.