July 23, 2026
Arkansas Police Officer Dies Saving Fiancée, Hours After He Proposed
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RSS Feed A heartbreaking, yet beautiful love story is emerging out of Arkansas. 24-year-old Arkansas police officer Fred Marsh proposed to his girlfriend of three years and then went on a canoe trip with another couple to celebrate. Within hours of his proposal, his brand new fiancée, Hailey, struggled while in the water and Marsh immediately jumped into the river to push her towards the canoe, and to safety. Unfortunately, Marsh then struggled, became exhausted, and slipped under the water, never to come back up again alive. We remember the young man who died, as he lived, a hero to the love of his life, to his family and to the community he served.
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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey, there are folks that It's Thursday, July twenty third, and this is an episode about a love story. But it's a love story we debated about even talking about because it's a tragic love story. A young man proposes to his girlfriend. Later that day, he dies trying to save his brand new fiance, and with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Roabes. The story is out of Arkansas, my home state, in an area where I have spent significant time and I have family. That's not why it jumped out at us. This is one of those it's almost too sad to even talk about. But there was some beauty in there, and I guess that's the part that we're holding onto and telling this story.
00:00:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think it jumped out to us because there is so much division and ugliness in this world. People spend so much time just arguing and pointing fingers and.
00:01:00
Speaker 3: Suing each other.
00:01:01
Speaker 2: I think so much of our podcast feed is filled with all of that, and so, yes, this is an unbelievable tragedy, but it is such. It is a beautiful love story, and I get choked up just thinking about it. I've been trying to read as much as I can about this young man, a twenty four year old Rogers police officer who you just look at the picture of this young couple and they're gorgeous, and from all accounts, he was a beautiful man inside and out. And to think that he had proposed to her that morning, they've been dating for three years, and later that day he dies trying to save her life. It's hard to get your head around. But it's also just the people who knew him and loved him said, that's exactly.
00:01:48
Speaker 3: Who he was.
00:01:49
Speaker 1: And let's explain, folks, just go back over the weekend is when this happened. This is in This is on the Elk River. If you're not familiar, this is if you I'm the young man the couples from Rogers, but this is just across the border in Missouri and northwest arkansaw that people go the Elk River. They were canoeing that day. But as the police do tell us that Fred Marsh, twenty four year old first year officer with the Rogers Police Department, was there with friends. They were celebrating. He was with his brand new fiance who had been his fiance and had that title for a matter of hours, she goes into the water. At some point she gets in trouble with the current. He sees her in trouble, jumps in to help her, helps shuffle her to safety. He then gets in trouble, starts to struggle in the way the police department describes it. He becomes exhausted, he goes under and never comes back up. His body is recovered the next day. So those are the circumstances robes and I guess it's not a full examination necessarily about the circumstance. Is nothing untowards the state tragic, obviously accident, But I guess it speaks to people. A story like this speaks to people about the people you love when you see them in trouble. What would you do? How would you react? There was not, I'm sure a split second that he considered he might get in trouble. He just saw the woman he loved, and he just found out hours earlier he was going to be spending the rest of his life with her, at least that was the plan. He saw her in trouble ropes, I don't know what else he could do besides jump in the water.
00:03:38
Speaker 2: Yes, and he, as you mentioned, a first year police officer. He was trained and followed his heart and his passion to save lives. That is why he got into that position. And so yes, the moment. Look, we know police officers, folks in law enforcement, fire department, emergency workers, they're heroes every single day because they're running towards emergencies. They're running towards danger and tragedies while we're all trying to run away. And so yes, that is what he signed up to do, to serve and to have that happen in a personal way, in a split second on a day that was joyful and happy and celebratory, to see for that moment that he saw his fiance struggling in the water. You're right, he did not hesitate. And everyone has described him as a hero, and he was a hero before that day, but he is now forever immortalized as a hero. He gave his life to save someone else, and not just anyone else. He gave his life for his fiance. I'm imagining, my god, what she must be going through because to know that she was the reason her struggle, She was the reason why he jumped in, She was the reason why he ended up giving up his life for her.
00:04:57
Speaker 1: I don't know how you I don't know, But I don't know how she recovers. I don't know what that is going to be like for her. And we focused here robes on his training, his background, the line of work he decided to get in, and I'm sure that contributed in some way to a maybe even a confidence he had. He had had more training than most, maybe even in saving live. He's got emt t all kinds of stuff. I just don't you could say it all day long. I just think anybody who loves someone doesn't even have to be man. Woman could be a woman looking at a child going in the water, woman looking at another friend. It could be a man looking at another friend of his. I just don't know if there's any other reaction that you have to seeing a loved one in trouble. I just don't know what else could it. You're not going to stop for a second to be patient and give me that rope and let's do this, and maybe we could try this. I just don't know instant other reaction anybody would have to seeing somebody they love in trouble. So I don't know what else could have been done differently. I don't know what other safety measure could have been taken. We could talk about life jackets and all this all day long. I just don't know what else could have been done.
00:06:09
Speaker 2: And I think also, what's just it's frustrating because you just you keep thinking like, why couldn't he have been saved? Why couldn't he have saved himself? Because they weren't alone. It wasn't just the two of them. They were with you mentioned friends, and they were with another couple actually, another officer and his wife were in the canoe next to Officer Marsh and his fiancee, Haley. So when Haley goes in, not only did he jump in his friend, the other officer jumped in with him to try and push Hailey, yes, towards the canoe. And that's what Marsh ended up able to do. He was push her to the canoe so she could hold onto something. But I'm just I don't understand how he couldn't have been saved too. It's just that he went under and they couldn't find him again. Actually they didn't recover his body for a short while. They actually had to get dive teams to go find him. But it's just that you start thinking about how in that split second decision, how there wasn't anything available to send him help, to give him help, that the other people in the other boats couldn't couldn't help them. But we're hearing these stories more and more. It happens every summer. It happens every time people are on the water. I know, I get it, it's inevitable, but it's just one of those moments where I I you just you feel for everyone who was in those canoes, because clearly they were helpless, and even his coworker who was out in the river with him trying to help his fiance assuredly tried to help him as well and just couldn't. But this was a guy who I mean, the police department has put out plenty of statements just about in his short time as an officer, the impact he left on that police department.
00:07:50
Speaker 1: Uh, he's twenty four. He just completed at the academy in April. I mean, he just this. This dude is brand spanking new, and he got his gig, he got his girl, time to propose and let's start life together. That is awful that or you can see it line up. They've been dating for three years, right three years or they've been together for a while. She's been with him through all of this training. She has known what his intentions were. She has known he had a desire to serve. And what do you do. I got the gig. I'm gonna serve here, twenty years in the career, retire, We're gonna have a house up here, have kids. This is just in a different part of the country where ambitions sometimes don't look like they do in Manhattan, where people the goal is to get a good job, to take care of your family, to have kids, to build something in the community. You're in. The timing there just makes sense to me, it does. It's what guys do. We wait to get everything in order, then we can propose. We wait to do all this, then we propose. It was something my mom always told me not to do. A woman will rather be with you and struggle with you than wait until you get all your ducks in a row. And Okay, now it's time, Joe. You just tell me that. And it just I don't know what might have happened, could have happened, but I just everything seemed to be going along in the in the order it was supposed to, and canoeing with friends. Man, that's a hell of an even simple way to celebrate their.
00:09:20
Speaker 2: Engagement, right, And that area of the country you know it well, Rogers and I have become I have started to know it fairly well because I've made I think now at least four trips over to that area. This is an area where outdoor activities are central to Rogers. It's a cycling community, it's a hiking community. We have run along those trails there. It's just you see everybody outdoors, enjoying the water, enjoying the woods, enjoying the mountains. This is a place where people are out and so I guess it does make sense in that way that they decided to celebrate by going on this canoe trip on a hot summer day. That it makes perfect sense. And you think, somebody who has EMT training and police training, I don't imagine you'd ever even think about or worry about getting into trouble, drowning and not being able to help one another and protect each other.
00:10:12
Speaker 1: No, no, no, you see somebody you love in trouble. You don't think, okay, wow, if I go in there, I might get in trouble. You don't think about that you don't do that at all. This is another case. This is absolutely the third one we have covered in recent months. The first was Morocco. Those soldiers. One went into the water, got in trouble, another one jumped in, gets in trouble, next thing you know, would both of them die? Was it just the one? Right? In that case? That was a situation where someone sees somebody in trouble, then they jump into the water. Next thing you know, they're in trouble. The couple we just saw, not the couple, the five family members in Ohio. What happened in the water. Two are in trouble, Uh oh, jump in two more, everybody's in trouble now and all five die. I don't know how to change training, change thoughts, change human nature. But your instinct is to help the people you love when they're in trouble. And maybe what we need to be teaching robes is more safety with life jackets and keeping those things on even though they're not comfortable and they're not cool. But this is a this is a significant string of deaths. We're talking about six now in the past few days over what somebody got, gets in trouble, somebody jumps in and they end up dying. It's just I don't know. It's the story's worth telling and worth it's a cautionary tale, but man, it is a story of love. And if you got somebody in your family and your loved one, and if you don't think you would jump in that water, you should go have a serious conversation with that loved one. They ain't the one for you. It's just instinct. This is what you do.
00:11:46
Speaker 2: That is what you do, and that is what he did. And when we come back, we're going to talk about this beautiful love story. We got to hear a little bit about what was between these two from her mother, who she said she felt like this young man who was about to officially become her son in law had been her son already for several years. And and and welcome back everyone, as we talk about this incredibly sad but beautiful love story between a brand new Arkansas police officer and the woman he had proposed to hours before. Twenty four year old Fred Marsh, just out of the police academy in his first year serving as a police officer there in Rogers, Arkansas, proposes to the girl he had been with for three years so yes, twenty one, they start dating, they have a beautiful love story. And finally, I'm sure you know, as you pointed out, he graduates from the academy, he gets his job, is getting his life set up, and he makes it official by getting down all one knee and proposing to his girlfriend of three years, Haley, And to just see within hours it end the way it did, It's it's heartbreaking.
00:13:09
Speaker 3: Heartbreaking doesn't even begin to describe it.
00:13:12
Speaker 2: But we got to get a little inside, at least from Haley's mom, who talked about their love and the love that she witnessed, and she said that there's nothing that this young man wouldn't have done for anyone. She said, you never had to tell him, you never had to beg him. He was just willing to do whatever it took to help someone. That was his nature and being a police officer was perfectly suited for him.
00:13:38
Speaker 1: And I I saw him referred to as a general giant. I didn't see his height. I don't know his dimensions. Actually he was a college athlete as well. But it's I mean, you'll, if you all are listening, look up just google Fred marsh Roger's police department and Just check out his picture.
00:13:55
Speaker 3: He's adorable. Just check out He's adorable.
00:13:58
Speaker 2: And they literally look like the perfect couple the top of a wedding cake. I mean, they really had everything going for them. And look Hailee and her mother. Her mother describes losing her son, her only son, in a fatal accident four years ago, and so she said, as soon as her daughter Haley brought Fred marsh into their family, she fell in love with him immediately. And she said, even when they were just dating and in early days, she just started calling him son and he started calling her mama, And it was almost like from the beginning they knew they were destined to become family. So she said they instantly had a connection, they instantly had a bond. And she said he was a loving, hard working man guided by his Christian faith.
00:14:43
Speaker 3: And you know, I think this is a tough one for a lot of folks.
00:14:46
Speaker 2: You know, I know that we all come up with reasons why and how could God do something like this? And sometimes this sort of situation shakes people's faith in God. But that's not what's being told, at least about him and his family and those who loved him. They're holding on to that and know that he would have wanted them to that he was a believer and he lived his life and he led by example by helping others, And sadly to know that he died the way he lived, I guess might serve as some comfort to family and friends, but it's incredibly tragic.
00:15:24
Speaker 1: Nonetheless, well maybe that was his last lesson to teach in life, was how to love and Fred Marsh, thank you for the moment. Really didn't know him, wish I did and he is what an awful and I don't know. I didn't want to do this story. I talked to my sister. We were going back and forth. She says, all everybody's talking about up there in north west Arkansas right now, and that just every bit of this story is awful. It is just every segment of it is just awful.
00:15:57
Speaker 3: It's hard.
00:15:58
Speaker 2: The more I read and the more we've been looking at their photos, you know, you do get choked up. It's hard not to feel incredible emotion and connection to this couple. And yet at the same time, I always try to do this this takeaway. You know, you cover these types of stories and we're not even there and we didn't know them. But every time you read something like this and you hear how somebody lived their life and you see how they gave their life for someone else, that ultimate story of sacrifice. That's love and I just think we need more of it in this world. And as sad as this story is, I do think it offers just a silver lining of hope, of hope that there are good people out there, people who love each other. And it's a reminder to love one another. When you see a story like this, Yes cry, Yes feel awful, Yes give if you can, either your money or your prayers. I know there's a go fundme page set up already, but what you can do is just love one another as the way Fred Marsh loved his fiance.
00:16:55
Speaker 3: That's the takeaway for me. That's how we get through the day.
00:16:58
Speaker 2: When we hear stories like that, we learn and we learn how to love better and more often and self leslie. That is what Fred Marsh did, and that is our takeaway after reading this story, and we hope you will do the same. We always appreciate you listening to us, every one. I'm Amy Roebuck alongside TJ.
00:17:18
Speaker 3: Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Hey, there are folks that It's Thursday, July twenty third, and this is an episode about a love story. But it's a love story we debated about even talking about because it's a tragic love story. A young man proposes to his girlfriend. Later that day, he dies trying to save his brand new fiance, and with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Roabes. The story is out of Arkansas, my home state, in an area where I have spent significant time and I have family. That's not why it jumped out at us. This is one of those it's almost too sad to even talk about. But there was some beauty in there, and I guess that's the part that we're holding onto and telling this story.
00:00:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think it jumped out to us because there is so much division and ugliness in this world. People spend so much time just arguing and pointing fingers and.
00:01:00
Speaker 3: Suing each other.
00:01:01
Speaker 2: I think so much of our podcast feed is filled with all of that, and so, yes, this is an unbelievable tragedy, but it is such. It is a beautiful love story, and I get choked up just thinking about it. I've been trying to read as much as I can about this young man, a twenty four year old Rogers police officer who you just look at the picture of this young couple and they're gorgeous, and from all accounts, he was a beautiful man inside and out. And to think that he had proposed to her that morning, they've been dating for three years, and later that day he dies trying to save her life. It's hard to get your head around. But it's also just the people who knew him and loved him said, that's exactly.
00:01:48
Speaker 3: Who he was.
00:01:49
Speaker 1: And let's explain, folks, just go back over the weekend is when this happened. This is in This is on the Elk River. If you're not familiar, this is if you I'm the young man the couples from Rogers, but this is just across the border in Missouri and northwest arkansaw that people go the Elk River. They were canoeing that day. But as the police do tell us that Fred Marsh, twenty four year old first year officer with the Rogers Police Department, was there with friends. They were celebrating. He was with his brand new fiance who had been his fiance and had that title for a matter of hours, she goes into the water. At some point she gets in trouble with the current. He sees her in trouble, jumps in to help her, helps shuffle her to safety. He then gets in trouble, starts to struggle in the way the police department describes it. He becomes exhausted, he goes under and never comes back up. His body is recovered the next day. So those are the circumstances robes and I guess it's not a full examination necessarily about the circumstance. Is nothing untowards the state tragic, obviously accident, But I guess it speaks to people. A story like this speaks to people about the people you love when you see them in trouble. What would you do? How would you react? There was not, I'm sure a split second that he considered he might get in trouble. He just saw the woman he loved, and he just found out hours earlier he was going to be spending the rest of his life with her, at least that was the plan. He saw her in trouble ropes, I don't know what else he could do besides jump in the water.
00:03:38
Speaker 2: Yes, and he, as you mentioned, a first year police officer. He was trained and followed his heart and his passion to save lives. That is why he got into that position. And so yes, the moment. Look, we know police officers, folks in law enforcement, fire department, emergency workers, they're heroes every single day because they're running towards emergencies. They're running towards danger and tragedies while we're all trying to run away. And so yes, that is what he signed up to do, to serve and to have that happen in a personal way, in a split second on a day that was joyful and happy and celebratory, to see for that moment that he saw his fiance struggling in the water. You're right, he did not hesitate. And everyone has described him as a hero, and he was a hero before that day, but he is now forever immortalized as a hero. He gave his life to save someone else, and not just anyone else. He gave his life for his fiance. I'm imagining, my god, what she must be going through because to know that she was the reason her struggle, She was the reason why he jumped in, She was the reason why he ended up giving up his life for her.
00:04:57
Speaker 1: I don't know how you I don't know, But I don't know how she recovers. I don't know what that is going to be like for her. And we focused here robes on his training, his background, the line of work he decided to get in, and I'm sure that contributed in some way to a maybe even a confidence he had. He had had more training than most, maybe even in saving live. He's got emt t all kinds of stuff. I just don't you could say it all day long. I just think anybody who loves someone doesn't even have to be man. Woman could be a woman looking at a child going in the water, woman looking at another friend. It could be a man looking at another friend of his. I just don't know if there's any other reaction that you have to seeing a loved one in trouble. I just don't know what else could it. You're not going to stop for a second to be patient and give me that rope and let's do this, and maybe we could try this. I just don't know instant other reaction anybody would have to seeing somebody they love in trouble. So I don't know what else could have been done differently. I don't know what other safety measure could have been taken. We could talk about life jackets and all this all day long. I just don't know what else could have been done.
00:06:09
Speaker 2: And I think also, what's just it's frustrating because you just you keep thinking like, why couldn't he have been saved? Why couldn't he have saved himself? Because they weren't alone. It wasn't just the two of them. They were with you mentioned friends, and they were with another couple actually, another officer and his wife were in the canoe next to Officer Marsh and his fiancee, Haley. So when Haley goes in, not only did he jump in his friend, the other officer jumped in with him to try and push Hailey, yes, towards the canoe. And that's what Marsh ended up able to do. He was push her to the canoe so she could hold onto something. But I'm just I don't understand how he couldn't have been saved too. It's just that he went under and they couldn't find him again. Actually they didn't recover his body for a short while. They actually had to get dive teams to go find him. But it's just that you start thinking about how in that split second decision, how there wasn't anything available to send him help, to give him help, that the other people in the other boats couldn't couldn't help them. But we're hearing these stories more and more. It happens every summer. It happens every time people are on the water. I know, I get it, it's inevitable, but it's just one of those moments where I I you just you feel for everyone who was in those canoes, because clearly they were helpless, and even his coworker who was out in the river with him trying to help his fiance assuredly tried to help him as well and just couldn't. But this was a guy who I mean, the police department has put out plenty of statements just about in his short time as an officer, the impact he left on that police department.
00:07:50
Speaker 1: Uh, he's twenty four. He just completed at the academy in April. I mean, he just this. This dude is brand spanking new, and he got his gig, he got his girl, time to propose and let's start life together. That is awful that or you can see it line up. They've been dating for three years, right three years or they've been together for a while. She's been with him through all of this training. She has known what his intentions were. She has known he had a desire to serve. And what do you do. I got the gig. I'm gonna serve here, twenty years in the career, retire, We're gonna have a house up here, have kids. This is just in a different part of the country where ambitions sometimes don't look like they do in Manhattan, where people the goal is to get a good job, to take care of your family, to have kids, to build something in the community. You're in. The timing there just makes sense to me, it does. It's what guys do. We wait to get everything in order, then we can propose. We wait to do all this, then we propose. It was something my mom always told me not to do. A woman will rather be with you and struggle with you than wait until you get all your ducks in a row. And Okay, now it's time, Joe. You just tell me that. And it just I don't know what might have happened, could have happened, but I just everything seemed to be going along in the in the order it was supposed to, and canoeing with friends. Man, that's a hell of an even simple way to celebrate their.
00:09:20
Speaker 2: Engagement, right, And that area of the country you know it well, Rogers and I have become I have started to know it fairly well because I've made I think now at least four trips over to that area. This is an area where outdoor activities are central to Rogers. It's a cycling community, it's a hiking community. We have run along those trails there. It's just you see everybody outdoors, enjoying the water, enjoying the woods, enjoying the mountains. This is a place where people are out and so I guess it does make sense in that way that they decided to celebrate by going on this canoe trip on a hot summer day. That it makes perfect sense. And you think, somebody who has EMT training and police training, I don't imagine you'd ever even think about or worry about getting into trouble, drowning and not being able to help one another and protect each other.
00:10:12
Speaker 1: No, no, no, you see somebody you love in trouble. You don't think, okay, wow, if I go in there, I might get in trouble. You don't think about that you don't do that at all. This is another case. This is absolutely the third one we have covered in recent months. The first was Morocco. Those soldiers. One went into the water, got in trouble, another one jumped in, gets in trouble, next thing you know, would both of them die? Was it just the one? Right? In that case? That was a situation where someone sees somebody in trouble, then they jump into the water. Next thing you know, they're in trouble. The couple we just saw, not the couple, the five family members in Ohio. What happened in the water. Two are in trouble, Uh oh, jump in two more, everybody's in trouble now and all five die. I don't know how to change training, change thoughts, change human nature. But your instinct is to help the people you love when they're in trouble. And maybe what we need to be teaching robes is more safety with life jackets and keeping those things on even though they're not comfortable and they're not cool. But this is a this is a significant string of deaths. We're talking about six now in the past few days over what somebody got, gets in trouble, somebody jumps in and they end up dying. It's just I don't know. It's the story's worth telling and worth it's a cautionary tale, but man, it is a story of love. And if you got somebody in your family and your loved one, and if you don't think you would jump in that water, you should go have a serious conversation with that loved one. They ain't the one for you. It's just instinct. This is what you do.
00:11:46
Speaker 2: That is what you do, and that is what he did. And when we come back, we're going to talk about this beautiful love story. We got to hear a little bit about what was between these two from her mother, who she said she felt like this young man who was about to officially become her son in law had been her son already for several years. And and and welcome back everyone, as we talk about this incredibly sad but beautiful love story between a brand new Arkansas police officer and the woman he had proposed to hours before. Twenty four year old Fred Marsh, just out of the police academy in his first year serving as a police officer there in Rogers, Arkansas, proposes to the girl he had been with for three years so yes, twenty one, they start dating, they have a beautiful love story. And finally, I'm sure you know, as you pointed out, he graduates from the academy, he gets his job, is getting his life set up, and he makes it official by getting down all one knee and proposing to his girlfriend of three years, Haley, And to just see within hours it end the way it did, It's it's heartbreaking.
00:13:09
Speaker 3: Heartbreaking doesn't even begin to describe it.
00:13:12
Speaker 2: But we got to get a little inside, at least from Haley's mom, who talked about their love and the love that she witnessed, and she said that there's nothing that this young man wouldn't have done for anyone. She said, you never had to tell him, you never had to beg him. He was just willing to do whatever it took to help someone. That was his nature and being a police officer was perfectly suited for him.
00:13:38
Speaker 1: And I I saw him referred to as a general giant. I didn't see his height. I don't know his dimensions. Actually he was a college athlete as well. But it's I mean, you'll, if you all are listening, look up just google Fred marsh Roger's police department and Just check out his picture.
00:13:55
Speaker 3: He's adorable. Just check out He's adorable.
00:13:58
Speaker 2: And they literally look like the perfect couple the top of a wedding cake. I mean, they really had everything going for them. And look Hailee and her mother. Her mother describes losing her son, her only son, in a fatal accident four years ago, and so she said, as soon as her daughter Haley brought Fred marsh into their family, she fell in love with him immediately. And she said, even when they were just dating and in early days, she just started calling him son and he started calling her mama, And it was almost like from the beginning they knew they were destined to become family. So she said they instantly had a connection, they instantly had a bond. And she said he was a loving, hard working man guided by his Christian faith.
00:14:43
Speaker 3: And you know, I think this is a tough one for a lot of folks.
00:14:46
Speaker 2: You know, I know that we all come up with reasons why and how could God do something like this? And sometimes this sort of situation shakes people's faith in God. But that's not what's being told, at least about him and his family and those who loved him. They're holding on to that and know that he would have wanted them to that he was a believer and he lived his life and he led by example by helping others, And sadly to know that he died the way he lived, I guess might serve as some comfort to family and friends, but it's incredibly tragic.
00:15:24
Speaker 1: Nonetheless, well maybe that was his last lesson to teach in life, was how to love and Fred Marsh, thank you for the moment. Really didn't know him, wish I did and he is what an awful and I don't know. I didn't want to do this story. I talked to my sister. We were going back and forth. She says, all everybody's talking about up there in north west Arkansas right now, and that just every bit of this story is awful. It is just every segment of it is just awful.
00:15:57
Speaker 3: It's hard.
00:15:58
Speaker 2: The more I read and the more we've been looking at their photos, you know, you do get choked up. It's hard not to feel incredible emotion and connection to this couple. And yet at the same time, I always try to do this this takeaway. You know, you cover these types of stories and we're not even there and we didn't know them. But every time you read something like this and you hear how somebody lived their life and you see how they gave their life for someone else, that ultimate story of sacrifice. That's love and I just think we need more of it in this world. And as sad as this story is, I do think it offers just a silver lining of hope, of hope that there are good people out there, people who love each other. And it's a reminder to love one another. When you see a story like this, Yes cry, Yes feel awful, Yes give if you can, either your money or your prayers. I know there's a go fundme page set up already, but what you can do is just love one another as the way Fred Marsh loved his fiance.
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Speaker 3: That's the takeaway for me. That's how we get through the day.
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Speaker 2: When we hear stories like that, we learn and we learn how to love better and more often and self leslie. That is what Fred Marsh did, and that is our takeaway after reading this story, and we hope you will do the same. We always appreciate you listening to us, every one. I'm Amy Roebuck alongside TJ.
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Speaker 3: Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.