More than two decades after the September 11 attacks, a mother’s handwritten words have finally found their way back to the son they were never meant to leave behind.
The letter was written in March 2001 by Cee Cee Ross Lyles, a Fort Pierce, Florida, woman who would lose her life just months later aboard United Flight 93 during the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
For nearly 24 years, the simple note remained carefully preserved by someone who understood its importance. Then, in an emotional chain of events, it was finally delivered to Lyles’s son, Jevon Castrillo.
Now a grown man and a father himself, Castrillo had never had the opportunity to read those words from his mother. When he finally unfolded the aging piece of paper and began reading her handwriting, the moment became deeply emotional.
His reaction was captured on camera, turning what could have been a quiet delivery into a powerful reunion with a part of his mother that had survived long after she was gone.
