Two Grieving Families Brought Together By Balloon
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. — A parent should never have to bury their child, but unfortunately many do. Two of those grieving mothers, strangers from different states, came together in an unexpected way.
Brittany Brown’s baby daughter, Vadah, died in 2014.
A year later, this past October, the family did a balloon release at America the Beautiful Park in Colorado Springs.
The family all wrote notes before sending them up in the air. Vadah’s 6-year-old brother, Logan Kuhns, says he thought the balloon would go to heaven.
Six months later and more than 100 miles away in Cheyenne, Wyo., Brenda Johnson found something in her yard.
“I was just out walking through the trees and there laid this balloon and this string…thought, ‘Hmm, that’s weird,’” Johnson said.
She found a note inside, and on it was a message Vadah’s brother had written, including the “Justice for Vadah” Facebook page.
“It’s almost like it’s a sign from her saying, ‘Mom, I’m okay,’” Brown said.
Johnson messaged Brown through the Facebook page and told her she too had lost a child.
Her 19-year-old son, Hunter, took his own life in December.
“What a bond we have,” Brown said.
The moms arranged a meeting and another balloon release at the same park with both families in memory of their children.
“The princess balloon and the green balloon stuck together, because that would be my Hunter taking care of Vadah,” Johnson said.
Although their kids were more than a decade apart, they say the pain is the same.
“We have our families, we have our friends who are always there for support, but they don’t understand as much as someone that knows how we feel. Another mother. Somebody who really knows how you feel,” Brown said.
They feel their two angels brought them together for exactly that reason.
Source: KKTV