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The story behind Chad Morris' military thank you

FAYETTEVILLE — Sitting at dinner with family and a couple of friends, I received a text message from Andy Shupe.

Andy, a longtime newspaper photographer in Fayetteville, told me to check the tweet he had just sent — a photo of a college student and Arkansas football coach Chad Morris at the Razorbacks’ fan day.

“It’s really cool,” he wrote. “Really was. VERY touching.”

The photo, shown above, was captured after Morris asked Faith Rawls, a sophomore journalism student, if he could call her father and thank him for his military service.

The picture alone was worth a thousand words, but here are a few-hundred more.