NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) -- At Heritage High School in Newport News, how to win after you lose is not in the curriculum, but a lesson found its way into the ethos there last year when a former student-turned-assistant principal Terry Fenner lost his left leg due to diabetes.

"To see the way all of us came together to be there and support him and to let him know that we are praying for him," said Joe Baker, Heritage High's graduation coach and Fenner's pastor.

Fenner told 10 On Your Side the answer to those prayers showed up in the school's parking lot.

"When I tell you my kids embraced me, I would park my truck out back and they would come to the car and get me," Fenner said. "They would be waiting for me in the morning to help me come in and to help me set up my office."

Thomas Turner

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