THE MAN WITH ALZHEIMER’S SUDDENLY REMEMBERED ONE THING. He hadn’t recognized his wife in three years. He sat in the wheelchair, eyes glazed over, amidst the loud cheering. But when Alan Jackson started the first chords of “Remember When,” something shifted. The old man’s head lifted. His eyes cleared. He reached out his shaking hand and grabbed his wife’s fingers. He started mouthing the lyrics—perfectly. Alan Jackson spotted them from the stage. He signaled the band to lower the volume until it was barely a whisper. He pointed the mic toward the couple. For a brief, miraculous moment, the fog of the disease lifted. The stadium screens zoomed in as the old man stood up—shakily—to ask his wife for one last dance in the aisle. Alan Jackson couldn’t finish the song, so the audience finished it for him. The video of that dance reveals a heartbreaking truth about love…
Watch the video at the end of this article. Introduction The stadium was alive with...