by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Aug 4, 2020 | Compassion, Enhanced Perspective
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...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Mar 2, 2020 | Compassion, Never Give Up, Underdogs
August 1964 – Anderson, South Carolina: He showed up on the hill overlooking the McCants Junior High football practice field. From a safe distance, he watched the team practice each afternoon. After a week, Coach Harold Jones invited the young man to attend practice....
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jan 20, 2020 | Compassion, Limitless Possibilities
1977, Holland, Massachusetts: Dick Hoyt was exhausted, and he had two more miles to go. His legs and back ached, and his heart pounded. In his entire life, he had never run more than a mile. Yet at age 37, he was running in a 5-mile race. His 15-year old-son, Rick,...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Nov 26, 2019 | Compassion, Never Lose Heart, Underdogs
1937 – Los Angeles, California: After his business went bankrupt and two marriages failed, Lionel Mayell swallowed his pride and moved back home with his mother. When he was a boy, she had often referred to him as “the little runt.” Disappointed in his looks and tiny...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Nov 4, 2019 | Adversity, Compassion, Finding Hope, Uncategorized
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...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Aug 25, 2018 | Compassion, Courage, Enhanced Perspective, Perserverance
1951 – A hospital in Sydney Australia: After four grueling hours, doctors successfully removed a diseased lung from 14-year-old James Harrison. The following three days were touch and go for James; he required 13 units of blood to stay alive. His first recollection...
