Billy Mays - Father and Son: A Class Act

If you doubt the value of Twitter, or of the limited allowed characters per tweet, it's clear that you haven't been following @YoungBillyMays through these days since the loss of his Father. Billy Mays III has shared his grief, and his innermost feelings with the Twitter community, and has done so in a way that would make his Dad very proud. By way of the "Pitchmen" TV series, we were allowed an up close and personal look at the man that we could trust, in an industry that's not necessarily known for honorable people that really believe in their product. Billy Mays was different. If you dared mess with his products, he took it personally, because he truly believed in them. If you were going to order a product Billy endorsed, you could count on it living up to your expectations. In short, he was an honest man. Obviously, he passed his strength of character on to young Billy.  Many people who suffer through a tragedy like this would go into seclusion, or, at the very least, would shut out the general public. Billy has let us all in. I'd like to think that the support of the Twitter community has helped in some small way, but by allowing us to be part of his life through all of this, he has helped us too. We've seen that the great work Billy Mays did wasn't limited to being a pitchman. His strength of character was passed to, and is now with young Billy. To pull an old phrase from the archives, "He's good people".  I think I can speak for a lot of people when I say "You've got plenty to be proud of, and we're there for ya buddy". If you've followed @YoungBillyMays at all, I think you'd agree, he'd be there for us too. That's the power of Twitter, and of two fine people: young Billy and his Dad.