A Black Waiter Fed Two Orphans—Twenty Years Later, a Helicopter Appeared Outside His Home

The roar of spinning blades cut through the quiet morning like a knife.

Thomas Jefferson Santos, forty-five years old, stood at the sink in his modest home, washing dishes, when the entire neighborhood froze. A black helicopter descended slowly and landed directly on the street in front of his house.

Two elegant figures stepped out: a tall man in a …