Excerpts from woodtv.com:
For Emily Switalski, graduating from Western Michigan University was bittersweet. Her father Comstock Township Fire Chief Ed Switalski was killed in the line of duty in June.
While her dad couldn’t be there in person to watch her graduate Saturday, Switalski said she knows he was there in spirit, he found a different way to be there.
“There’s a song, ‘Hotel California’ by the Eagles, that we played at his funeral,” she said. “We always say whenever it comes on, ‘He’s with us,’” Emily Switalski said. “And my mom picked me up to take me to my ceremony, and on the radio was the song. And so, just to get in the car to go to the biggest day of my life and hear that, I knew he was truly with me.”
Firefighters who worked with Chief Switalski also showed up to her graduation ceremony to surprise her.
