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Essential Workers

Athletes say thank you to all those working on the front lines of the pandemic.

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Essential

Everything’s different for everyone right now, obviously. And that definitely includes my parents.

Elizabeth Williams

Nurse Mom

I’m begging you, we have to listen — we have to follow instructions.

Frances Tiafoe

Work

I am teaching my two young boys that all the folks out there putting in work during this pandemic … those are heroes right there.

A.J. Green

A Salute to the Early Risers

Some people gotta be out there on their grind, doing their job no matter what.

Dion Dawkins

For Everybody Setting That 5 a.m. Alarm

THEY DESERVE YOUR RESPECT, AMERICA. Not your sympathy. Your respect. It’s different.

Johnathan Abram

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