Thomas L. Friedman's Address in Rensselaer Polytechnic University

When I read the last paragraph of the address, I was touched.
So I posted this paragraph to you guys, family is so important to us.
"Well, I’ve tried to frighten you, tried to inspire you. Now let me appeal to your sentimental side for just one moment with a message that I include in every graduation address I give. It’s a very simple message: Call your mother. When you were just in elementary school, there was a legendary football coach at the University of Alabama named Bear Bryant and, late in his career after his mother died, Bell South Telephone Company asked Bear Bryant to do a TV commercial. As best I can piece together from the news reports, the commercial was supposed to be very simple, just a little music and Coach Bear Bryant saying in his tough coach’s voice into the camera, “Have you called your mamma today?” On the day of the filming, though, when it came time for Coach Bryant to recite his simple line, he decided to ad lib something. His mother had recently died. He looked into the camera and said, “Have you called your mamma today? I sure wish I could call mine.” That was how the commercial ran and it got a massive audience response. My own father died when I was 19. He never got to see me do what I love. I sure wish I could call him. My mom, though, is 87 years old and lives in a home for people with dementia. She doesn’t remember so well anymore and hasn’t for quite some time. But even as her memory failed, for years she remembered that my column ran twice a week in the New York Times. She didn’t quite remember the days, though, so every day she went through the paper and if she found my column, she photocopied it and passed it out to the other dementia patients in her nursing home. Now, they didn’t know my column from the crossword puzzle but, never mind, if you don’t think that was important to me to know that my mom was still passing around my column even to people who could no longer read it, well then, you don’t know what’s important. Your parents love you more than you will ever know so if you take one message away from this talk, take this one: Call your mother. Regularly. And your father. You will always be glad you did."