Boy Donates His Savings to Police

Two days after the 12th anniversary of 9/11, an 11-year-old Wisconsin boy walked into a Greenfield police station and handed the clerk $10.03 cents: his entire savings.

The boy did not give the clerk his name, but Greenfield police were so touched by the donation that they put surveillance footage on both their Facebook and YouTube pages in order to track down and thank local sixth grader Max Siepert, NBC's "Today" reported.

Siepert said he started saving money in April with the intention to donate. It wasn't until a class discussion on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks that he realized he wanted to give his savings to the police.

"We started to talk about 9/11 and all the good deeds that we could do so I decided that I had all this money and I hadn't donated yet," he told Milwaukee NBC Affiliate WTMJ

Seipert's donation was also in memory of his grandfather, a police officer who died in the line of duty in 1974. 

Siepert encouraged everyone else to "make a difference" by donating.

"If every person would do that we would have such a great world," he said. "It would be awesome."

Siepert's mom has matched her son's $10.03 donation, which he plans on donating to a Wisconsin girl in need of a kidney transplant, according to "Today." 

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