 Hello everyone, this is Chaplain Burson, and today's thought is about respect. Years ago there was a humble janitor at the Air Force Academy named Bill, and no one really noticed until one day one of the cadets was reading a book about World War II for a class. When he came across a story of an army private named William Crawford. In Italy in 1943 Crawford had charged through intense enemy gunfire three times on his own initiative to single-handedly clear out German gun sights. Unfortunately Crawford was captured and presumed dead, so when he was awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery it was presented to his father instead. Thankfully Crawford was later found alive when a group of soldiers were rescued. The picture of Private Crawford in the book looked very much like a younger version of the janitor Bill. So the next day the cadets showed the book to old Bill who said, that was a long time ago and one day in my life. Bill Crawford retired as a master sergeant after 23 years of service and went to work as a janitor where he mostly went unnoticed until the day that cadet read about him. Students at the academy began to see him very differently, and when they discovered that he had never had a ceremony to present him the Medal for the past 40 years the cadets decided to change this. And so in 1984 when President Ronald Reagan spoke at the academy graduation he presented Crawford with his Medal of Honor in front of all of the cadets. One of the lessons from Bill Crawford that the cadet who discovered him later wrote down is that everyone deserves respect. He said that Bill was wrongly treated with less respect because he was thought of as just a janitor. He deserved much more though and not just because he was a Medal of Honor recipient. Bill deserved respect because he was a janitor. He walked among them and was a part of their team. Bill Crawford's story is a great reminder that everyone deserves our respect. Not only because you never know what stories lie behind the people on your team but because every job is important to the mission. As many great people have said you can truly judge someone's character by how they treat the people in their lives who they feel like can do nothing for them or to them. Blessings this week.