Friday, December 01, 2006

Friday, December 1, 2006

On this day in 1917, Father Edward Flanagan opened Boy's Town, a community with the goal of getting wayward boys on the right track and keeping those most at risk of getting off track from doing so. Father Flanagan adopted a phrase he'd seen in a magazine as the motto for his organization: "He ain't heavy, Father... he's m' brother."

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