By Police1 Staff
SAN DIEGO — An officer brought some happiness to a difficult day for two kids who were saying goodbye to their Navy dad.
Josh Buetow was being deployed for the first time and his children Rileigh, 4, and Austin, 2, were yelling their goodbyes from the shore when Officer James Weaver noticed them, NBC San Diego reported.
Weaver told the news station that the kids were so far away from their departing father, he knew their goodbyes weren’t being heard. That’s when he approached the pair and asked if they wanted to use the PA.
He allowed them to use the loudspeaker to say “bye daddy, we love you” to their father.
“It meant a lot to us,” Brettany Buetow, the children’s mother, said. “I was holding it together pretty well until he asked them if they wanted to do that and I just slowly broke down and started crying.”