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Article: A promise kept ; Utah children live their father's dream of seeing Red Sox play at Fenway
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 4, 2008
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When two medical flight helicopters collided near a Flagstaff,
Ariz., hospital June 29, a promise died.
It was a sacred promise from a Red Sox-loving father to his three
young sons. On his 37th birthday in August, they would make the
2,100-mile pilgrimage to see the Red Sox play in Fenway Park.
By all accounts, James W. Taylor Jr. was no ordinary dad. He was
a hero.
He loved to save lives. He was an emergency room nurse who served
as a first lieutenant in the US Army Reserves. He had treated
medical burn victims from Desert Storm while stationed in Germany.
Once a month he commuted from his Eagle Mountain, Utah, home to
serve as a Life Flight nurse 500 miles away in Page, Ariz.
Baseball was ...