This was a lovely thing to do and very sad. What a pointless way to die. I'm sure that your students had been absolutely thrilled by his visit.

I saw my first-grade teacher once after I came back from university. That was nice and she remembered me and told me an amusing anecdote about an incident that had occurred between myself and another boy 18 years previously. Tragically she was killed after being hit by a car running a red light as she was crossing US1 in College Park, Md. Another pointless way to go.