The Janitor Muhammad Ali Greeted Every Day for 20 Years—Everyone Ignored Him, Until The Funeral скачать в хорошем качестве

The Janitor Muhammad Ali Greeted Every Day for 20 Years—Everyone Ignored Him, Until The Funeral

Earl Washington mopped floors at Fifth Street Gym in Chicago every morning at 5 AM. For fifty years, he was invisible. Boxers walked past him. Trainers stepped over his mop bucket. Nobody learned his name. Then in March 1985, Muhammad Ali walked in. Instead of walking past Earl like everyone else, Ali stopped. Extended his hand. "Good morning. What's your name?" "Earl. Earl Washington, sir." For the next twenty years, every time Ali visited that gym, he found Earl. Said "Good morning, Earl." Shook his hand. Asked how he was doing. Two minutes, maximum. But those two minutes made Earl visible. Ali's Parkinson's got worse. Speaking became difficult. But he never missed greeting Earl. Even when he could barely talk: "Good... morning... Earl." In 2005, Earl had a stroke and moved to a nursing home. He never saw Ali again. But he kept a photo of them shaking hands in 1987. When Muhammad Ali died on June 3, 2016, Earl watched the news alone in his nursing home room and cried. Three days later, Lonnie Ali called. "Mr. Washington, Muhammad left specific instructions. You're sitting front row at his funeral. Family section. He said: 'Find Earl Washington. He sits up front. He's family.'" At the funeral, 15,000 people watched as Earl was wheeled to the front row. Past presidents, celebrities, and boxing legends. Everyone asking: "Who is this man?" Then Earl spoke. And told the world about twenty years of "good morning." This is the story of a janitor everyone ignored and a champion who saw him. Subscribe for more untold Muhammad Ali stories. #MuhammadAli #Janitor #TrueStory #Inspiration