Bismark 6-year-old honored with Adam Brown award for strength, perseverance

Bismark 6-year-old honored with Adam Brown award for strength, perseverance

Bismark 6-year-old honored with Adam Brown award for strength, perseverance

BISMARK, Ark. – The crowds under the Friday night lights fell silent for a moment this week as the community honored two in Arkansas who through tough times, persevered and showed us all what it truly means to be a hero.

Every year, the Adam Brown Award is given to a child who exhibited the strength that many once saw in Brown, who was a U.S. war hero. This year, the award was given to 6-year-old Bo Henry Fryar.


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In the hearts of many, there are three simple rules to a good life.

“In our house its God, family, and country,” Crossroads Cowboy Church pastor Chad Fryar said.

Chad said those values are where he finds peace.

“A lot of the times I’ll just kind of stand and look and be in amazement at what God’s done, and what He’s doing,” Fryar said.

It’s a little piece of heaven on earth, that wouldn’t be complete without his right-hand man.

“Bo Henry? He’s a little cotton-headed ninny muggings is what we call him,” Fryar said.

Bo Henry is Chad’s youngest child.

At just 6 years old, his love for life exceeds most adults. Chad calls him his “little man” who has grit, determination and a heart as big as Texas.

“I don’t think right now he even realizes how much he’s already overcome,” Fryar said.


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The Fryar family was involved in a deadly car crash in 2023. Chad and his three children were hit by an oncoming train at a crossing in Gum Springs.

“Upon impact, it threw me 176 feet out of the vehicle, which is right at 16 stories,” Fryar said.

Fryar’s girls Dana Kate and Marley Jo did not survive.

Bo Henry and Chad were airlifted to Little Rock. Bo Henry went into surgery for a broken neck and arm.

“You could imagine the loss of your two older sisters, the trauma that’s going on in yourself and your family, and then you’ve got this contraption on you,” Fryar said.

A year later, Bo Henry is still recovering.

His father said he’s pushing through with a smile, a reminder that strength can be found even in the smallest of men.

Bo Henry’s strength is what put him in line for the Adam Brown Award. 

Mike Glisson, who was Adam Brown’s football coach in fifth and sixth grade, said Brown was the same way.

“There’s several of them that stand out more than others and he was one, just because of his grit and his heart,” Glisson said.

As the years went on, Glisson watched the small-town boy go on to become a Navy SEAL, overcoming a shot to the eye and an accident that tore off four of his fingers.


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Brown gave his heart and ultimately his life to protect others. He died at 36 while serving in Afghanistan in 2010.

For the last 13 years, Glisson has kept Brown’s memory alive by honoring kids just like him who, through the hardest times, still managed to come out on top.

“He looks to God and looks for God in more things than us adults do,” Fryar said.

Etched next to Brown’s name this year is Bo Henry.

They say you never know what truly matters until everything is stripped away.

“The cemetery isn’t where I find them, I go back there from time to time, but I find them in our daily life,” Fryar said. “That’s where they were living with me, was right there.”

Along with the award plaque, Bo Henry was given some nice gifts, donated by the community.

Glisson has been giving out the award for more than a decade now, and he says he isn’t planning on stopping any time soon.

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