There are times in our lives when we do good things simply because it’s right to do them.

Turn back the clock to a time when the next season of drag racing was just around the corner. Evan Knoll, ensconced in a gliding chair, mulled over the various possible ways in which Melanie Troxel’s new dragster could be used to benefit various charities. Somewhere around 3 am, it came to us, Knoll and myself, how we could both help and honor a huge group of people who in a time long past felt more spit upon than welcomed.

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