Boy's 'Daddy Shirt' Lost and Found: A Memento of 7-Year-Old's Late Father (VIDEO)
Crewmembers went above and beyond in a story that unfolded this month about a boy who lost the last memento of his late father while on a Delta Airlines plane.
"I lost it, I can't find it, I can't find it," 7-year-old Cole Holzer screamed after realizing that he had just lost "Daddy's shirt."
Originally from Casselton, N.D., Cole had just gotten off a San Diego flight with his mother Tonya Holzer when he discovered that the shirt he kept, belonging to his late father, had gone missing, according to ABC News.
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Cole's father Brian died tragically two years ago while hanging Christmas lights on the house. The 34-year-old fell and was killed, leaving behind three children and his high school sweetheart. Cole kept the shirt his father fell in as a memento.
"Ever since he will lay out and spray his dad's cologne on it and cuddle up with it and sing the daddy song to go to bed," his mother said during an interview with WDAY, a local ABC affiliate.
It was that shirt that had gone missing following the family's flight on a Delta Airlines plane. Without knowing how to resolve the situation, or if the shirt could ever be found, Tonya attempted to call the airline.
"I started by calling the Delta 800 number and I tried to keep my composure, I am pretty emotional, I cried, the lady on the other end cried," Tonya said. "She was very emotional and she said we are going to pull the garbage, we have ground crews looking through the garbage. And I am going to help."
The woman on the other end held up to her promise. Delta crews searched everywhere to recover the lost search. In the end, it was discovered amidst other things that were bundled in the garbage.
"She said, Kelly, we found out. They found it, they looked through the garbage and found it. I cried some more. I started crying, Cole started crying," the mother recalled. Her son was relieved.
"I was really happy because I liked it so much," Cole told the station.
Watch a video of the incident here.
