All the kids you see here are good kids - they're just not thinking. My daughters fell into this trap. They had the reaction of all kids when I asked them what would they think if a 40-year-old guy was looking at these pictures.

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for,

Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.

I wanted the kids to be able to leave (a meet) thinking they had done something special.

It's unacceptable that we don't have 70, 80 percent of our kids thinking, preparing themselves and succeeding going off to four-year colleges. That's where we need to be, ... They're called prep schools for a reason, because they prep you for the next stage.

We let him know we were thinking of him and praying for him. The kids wrote very uplifting notes, drew pictures and prayed for his safe return.