The Father Who Searched the Wreckage

On April 27, 2011, an EF5 tornado carved a mile-wide path through Tuscaloosa, Alabama. When the sirens finally stopped, a father named James Davis sprinted toward the flattened neighborhood where his daughter's apartment had stood. Rescue workers told him to wait. He refused. He climbed through splintered lumber, shattered glass, and collapsed roofing, calling her name into the dust — not with anger, but with aching love.…