3:00 pm, Monday, September 11, 2001 – Gander, Newfoundland: Flight 49 was enroute from Paris to Dallas when captain Beverly Bass called for the head flight attendant. Bass handed her a printed message from the American Airlines office in Dallas. It read, “All airways...
December 1984 – Los Gatos, California: Coach’s death seemed imminent. His 95- pound frame clung to life support in his bedroom. Ramona, one of his nurses, felt impressed to lay hands on him and pray. As she did, Coach felt a jolt of power flow through him. A wilted...
June 13, 1935 – Madison Square Garden, New York City: More than 30,000 people packed into The Garden that evening. In living rooms across America, millions more sat glued to their radios. James J. “Jimmy” Braddock was fighting reigning heavyweight boxing champion Max...
September 25, 1942 – Vienna, Austria:They came and arrested his family. Like cattle, he, his wife, brother, and parents were loaded so tightly on a rail car that they could not sit down. People took turns squatting in the urine and feces for two days until the train...
Guam, South Pacific – December 8, 1941: Navy Chief Radioman George Tweed woke to the booming sound of field artillery guns. Suddenly he was wide-awake – the Marine Corps did not have heavy artillery on Guam. The Japanese were invading the island. Tweed knew the 150...
May 10, 1508 – Rome, Italy: When he had first been approached by Pope Julius II to tackle the project, he fled from his home in Caprese, Italy, to hide out in Rome rather than agree to the pope’s request. He was overwhelmed by the magnitude of the task, and he didn’t...
