August 1963 – Dallas, Texas: What would she do now? At age 45, she had just quit her executive position with the World Gift Company. She was tired of bumping her head against the glass ceiling in a male-dominated corporate world. She had long dreamed of having her own...
June 1994 – New York City: Deogratias “Deo” Niyizonkiza left his empty shopping cart on the sidewalk. He slipped into St. Thomas More’s Church on East 89thStreet to pray. He was alone and out of place in a strange new world. Deo knew no one, spoke no English, and had...
November 2011 – New York City: Two weeks before she began her dream job as a meteorologist on ABC’s Good Morning America, Ginger Zee checked herself into an in-patient mental health facility. She had seen six different therapists over the years, but her battle with...
October 5, 1957 – Coalwood, West Virginia: Homer Hickam read about the Russians launching Sputnik, the first satellite into orbit, in the Bluefield, West Virginia Daily Telegraph. For the next several nights, the 14-year-old stood in the yard with his mother to...
April 8, 1968 – Khe Sanh, Vietnam: Captain Max Cleland received an order to set up a radio relay station on a hill east of Khe Sanh. As he exited the helicopter, the 26-year-old Army signal officer saw a grenade at his feet. When he reached down to pick it up, it...
March 1964 – Sevier County High School – Sevierville, Tennessee: She was nervous. At the school assembly, the seniors had been asked an interesting question, “What are you going to do in your life after high school?” Several students had already stood up when she...
