This letter from a fourth-grade elementary student is just another example of how it’s a small world, after all.

Before Jim Johnson became the sheriff of the Ozaukee County Police Department in Wisconsin, he was a soldier stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

While he was deployed, Johnson received dozens of letters from American school children – and he kept every single one of them as a reminder of the kids who cared about him while he was stationed overseas.

The police officer was recently going through his collection of heartwarming letters when he found one that had been written…