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Caleb Bichard

My Mentor,

My Brother

by Colton Bichard

any people look up to people who are a lot serve people with actions or words. He always puts
older than them, but I am lucky to have a other people’s needs first, even when it costs him.
Mbig brother who I can look up to and relate I remember when Caleb was in high school, after
to more easily because he’s only five years older than football games when he still couldn’t drive, we’d wait
me. My big brother Caleb has always been a strong for him to get off the bus, and he was the last one off
influence in my life. He is more than a brother; he is every single time. As a kid, I’d get frustrated waiting,
one of my closest friends. He has had such an impact so I finally asked him why he was always last. He
on me because he has a servant’s heart, a great sense told he was cleaning up the bus. He did it so no one
of humor and, most importantly, he always puts God would get in trouble for leaving trash on the bus. That
first. revelation inspired me. Now I am the same guy—
always the last one off the bus because I’m cleaning
Caleb has a mature way of looking at things that up after all the guys. I realize that showing people you
belies his age. He never wastes an opportunity to care and want to help can give you an opportunity

Article Submitted by
Colton Bichard LUBBOCK-COOPER LIBERTY

Colton Bichard attends Lubbock-Cooper Liberty High School where he plays football,
basketball, and golf, participates in the NHS, and attends church activities at IABC.
(Colton and his classmates will be the first to graduate from Liberty.) After graduation,
he plans to study sports management and marketing.

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