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Mother Shares Her Thoughts on Her Son Being Honored in Rose Parade

By: Chris Veech

Updated: December 12, 2012

A young Tri-State man who died in 2007 is being honored at the Donate Life Rose Parade. Because he was an donor, Thomas Walls' organs and tissue donations saved the lives of six others he never met. His family is decorating his special float at swonder ice rink in Evansville tonight, which will appear in the 124th Rose Parade in Pasadena, California. Thomas' mother, Lee Ann Shafer, explains how decorations are going and what it means to have her son honored.

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