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Saving Boston – Monroe Journal – August 13, 2020
January 1776 – Berkshire Mountains – Upstate New York: The colonial soldiers and volunteers refused to go any further. The mission was too difficult and dangerous. Colonel Henry Knox, a 25-year-old former Boston bookstore owner, pleaded and begged the men to continue....
The Wish Man – Monroe Journal – August 2, 2020
1980, Seligman, Arizona: By the time Frank arrived at the hospital, 7-year-old Chris Greicius had lapsed into a coma. His battle with leukemia was almost over. By the bed hung Chris’s highway patrol uniform, hat, badge and boots. Frank pinned the wings on Chris’s...
Will – Monroe Journal – July 23, 2020
May 2012 – New Jersey Schnauzer Rescue – Fanwood, New Jersey: William had been rescued from a kill shelter an hour away. He had been abandoned. At 15, he was deaf, almost blind and his arthritic hips made it difficult to walk. Hopeless, he lay in his cage at the...
Sisters – Monroe Journal – July 9, 2020
October 1, 1987 – Salem Hospital – Salem, Illinois: The baby was born without legs. Her Romanian-immigrant parents were shocked and overwhelmed. There was no money or insurance to raise a handicapped child, so they abandoned the baby in the hospital. The following...
Grandfather – Monroe Journal – July 2, 2020
July 2000 – Amsterdam, Holland: Maemae Mincaye stood at the podium at the Billy Graham Evangelistic Conference. With more than 11,000 attendees from 209 countries, it was the largest event ever of its kind. Mincaye’s Macaw headdress, pig-tooth necklace and the large...
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The Kitchen Chemist – Monroe Journal – June 25, 2020
1955 – Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: Some diseases killed, polio crippled children for a lifetime. Since the first epidemic in the summer of 1894 in Vermont, polio had become the disease most feared by parents. It struck children without warning, frequently causing muscle...
SpaceX – Monroe Journal – June 11, 2020
August 3, 2008 – Kwajalein Atoll, South Pacific Ocean: On a tiny 8-acre island, almost 5,000 miles southwest of Honolulu, his 70-foot tall Falcon 1 rocket sat on the launch pad. Liftoff was perfect and at nine miles up the first...
The Sugar Land Express – Monroe Journal – June 4, 2020
Fall 1954, Texas A&M University – College Station, Texas: They nicknamed him the Sugar Land Express. Ken Hall arrived on campus as the best high school football player in history. The single-wing formation quarterback at Sugar Land High School set 17 national...
Water4Africa – Monroe Journal – May 21, 2020
2008 – Edmond, Oklahoma: Steve Stewart, owner of Allied Innovation, LLC, got a call from his old high school buddy, Richard Greenly. Richard knew that Steve’s company created innovative products for the poorest people in third world countries, so Richard had a real...
