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No Hand Dan – Monroe Journal – October 7, 2021
March 17, 1982 – New Orleans, Louisiana: Marilyn Caro left her 2-year-old son Dan on the porch while she mowed the grass. Focused on her task, she didn’t notice him wander into the garage. Dan turned over the lawnmower gas and when the hot water heater ignited the...
Burt’s Bees – Monroe Journal – May 23, 2019
“Very rarely are you going to hit a homerun right out of the box. You’re going go through a lot of trial and error. And the major thing is not to be discouraged because you learn so much more from your mistakes than your successes.” Roxanne Quimby ...
Hanging on to Hope – Monroe Journal – September 23, 2021
Monday, May 2, 2005 – Bridgeport, Connecticut: It was supposed to be an uneventful six-day sailing adventure to Bermuda on the 45-foot sailboat Almeisan. First mate Lochlin Reidy, age 58, had made 16 crossings with Captain Tom Tighe. The captain had made the 600-mile...
The Little Monster – Monroe Journal – September 30, 2021
1951 – Seattle, Washington: Frank Peretti was born with cystic hygroma, which caused his tongue to be a black, tumorous growth protruding from his mouth. Doctors at Seattle’s Children’s Orthopedic Hospital trimmed his tongue for the first time when he was three months...
Saving Luna – Monroe Journal – August 8, 2017
November 1997 – Humboldt, California: When Julia Hill arrived at the Earth First camp, the focal point of the protest was a 1,000-year-old redwood tree, which Earth First had named “Luna.” The 200-foot giant sat high on the peak of a clear-cut hill where it was...
No Going Back – Monroe Journal – August 1, 2017
May 21, 1927 – Paris, France: Forty miles from Le Bourget Air Field, he began to see the flares. Less than 33 hours earlier, 500 people had watched the 25-year-old pilot take off from a muddy Roosevelt Field runway in New York. He hoped to become the first pilot to...
Running for Dreams – Monroe Journal – July 27, 2017
2013 – Los Angeles, California: In 2013, Matthew Barnett had chest pains while playing in a church softball game and was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism. The doctor told him, “You’re going to live, but you will never run a marathon.” This was fine with Barnett...
Miracle on the River Kwai – Monroe Journal – July 20, 2017
May 1943 – Chungkai Prison Camp – Thailand: Scottish Commander Ernest Gordon lay dying in the infamous Japanese prison camp in a Thailand jungle on the bank of the Kwai River. He had been placed next to fellow prisoners of war on the muddy ground next to several...
Mama’s Grit – Monroe Journal – September 9, 2021
1975 – Pelham, Alabama: Young Dabo witnessed things no child should see. Ervil Swinney, his alcoholic father, didn’t always come home at night, and on the nights he did, he often fought with his wife, Carol. Several times the police were called to their home. When...
There She Is – Monroe Journal – September 2, 2021
1964 – Ackerman, Mississippi: Seventeen-year-old Cheryl Prewitt told her father she was thinking about entering the Miss Choctaw County pageant. “No daughter of mine is going to parade herself around on stage in front of a bunch of strangers in a beauty contest. I...
