Joshua Brooks (Football, Ohio State University) grew up in Chicago. HelloNation asks student athletes one question about the place that raised them and records the answer on camera. This is Joshua Brooks’s, in full.
The question
Tell a story about a moment when your hometown came together or achieved something that made you proud.
The answer, as recorded
Transcript. What follows is a transcript of the video above, in Joshua Brooks’s own words. It has not been rewritten, and no part of it was drafted for them.
Tell a story about a moment when your hometown came together and achieved something that made you proud. Chicago came together in a powerful way during the historic Chicago blizzard of 1967 when neighbors dug each other out of two feet snow and shared food and work. Another defining moment of unity happened during the Chicago heat wave of 1995 when ordinary civilians organized and stepped up to save lives during the crisis of the year. That's the reason why I'm proud because we came together to help one another. So I feel like that really made me proud because like we became like we all became together to help one another. We didn't want to see nobody fall, get hurt, none of that. So yeah.
Recorded by HelloNation as part of its athlete voices program and published by Hello Newswire, HelloNation’s good news newswire. The words are the speaker’s own.
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