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Grieving Dad of Las Vegas Shooting Victim, Who Died Saving His Wife, Pens Heart-Wrenching Open Letter
[Faithwire.com] The father of Las Vegas shooting victim Sonny Melton, a man who died while protecting his wife duringSunday's attack, wrote a touching and heartbreaking letter on Facebook this week praising his son as a "hero" and reflecting on the tragic new realities that his family faces in the wake of Melton's death. (Read the full text of his letter here) (Photo: Sonny and Heather Melton/Facebook/via WBBJ TV) James Warren Melton, 62, who also revealed new details about Sonny's heroism, opened the letter by noting that he's seen 22,623 sunrises throughout his life and, until Sunday, had never experienced a day in which he struggled wholeheartedly to find the good. "I had never really experienced one that I couldn't find at least some good in and I had never, ever hated anyone. And I mean that, not anyone," he wrote in a Facebook post. "Well, as of 12:57 am Monday morning, Oct. [2], 2017, I am now well acquainted with both horrible things, a hated day and a hated person. That's the moment I received the telephone call that everyone, especially a parent fears..." Click here to continue reading. 
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"...As Sonny and Heather ran away from the sniper, he always kept his own body between the danger and his wife. A running human shield. Heather says he had his hands on her shoulders and she felt him get hit and start to fall. And even though she was only a few yards from the safety of a concrete retaining wall, she stopped and turned around to kneel by his side ... she stayed right there and started CPR there out in the open on the cold ground in a last ditch chance to save her husband. Don't you see, Heather is a hero also. Protected by nothing more than the grace of God's invisible hands, she stayed with him and I'm comforted now knowing my son didn't have to die alone..." -James Warren Melton
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