an unsung hero has died...............

a friend of mine posted this and when i read it i cried i never knew david personally but i had seen him play in many games and i saw what he did for others off the field and when i got this i cried cause david had to be the most upbeat postive person about his situation ever..... he was well respected by college football coaches wanting him by his teams opponites, by his coaches and team, by his family and those who he inspired after their loss at the game the opposing team swed on his jersey number on to their uniforms and they along with his fam friends teammates and both schools baseball teams helped make his house situable for him he was an unsung hero in the greater san antonio area David Edwards, a former Madison High School football player who suffered a paralyzing injury in a 2003 playoff game, died early Wednesday afternoon at Northeast Methodist Hospital, Edwards' grandfather Lorenzo Kelly said. He was 20. Edwards had stopped breathing Monday night. Faye Stanton, Edwards' mother, and a neighbor performed CPR on Edwards before paramedics arrived at their Northeast Side home that night. He slipped into a coma and was listed in critical condition at the hospital Tuesday. Stanton said Edwards had been battling pneumonia since last fall. Edwards was a junior defensive back at James Madison High School when he snapped the fourth vertebra in his neck while making a tackle in a game against Austin Westlake on Nov. 15, 2003. He would have turned 21 Saturday!! -metro newspape