by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Mar 6, 2018 | Adversity, Courage Under Fire, Determination Despite the Odds, Uncategorized
Prisoners No. 66729 and 66730, sisters Betsie and Corrie, huddled under the small, dim light in the back of Barracks No. 28 so they could read their worn, smudged Bible, which they had miraculously smuggled into the prison. After standing for an hour at 4:30 AM that...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Mar 2, 2018 | Compassion, Courage Under Fire, Never Lose Heart
July 1918: Harry Peter Henry “Pee Wee” Reese was born in Ekron, Kentucky. He was so small that he did not start on his high school baseball team. In 1938 he was playing in a church league where the local minor league baseball team, the Louisville Colonels, discovered...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Feb 27, 2018 | Adversity, Courage Under Fire, Iron-willed
The Birmingham Preacher Christmas night, 1956 – Birmingham, Alabama: The late-night explosion reduced the small house to shambles and rattled windows a mile away. Ku Klux Klan members had placed 15 sticks of dynamite beneath the home of Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth,...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Feb 21, 2018 | Courage Under Fire, Refusing to Quit, Underdogs
Pea Island, North Carolina, June 1878: Station No. 17, the Pea Island Life Saving Station, was created as one of 18 stations on the outer banks of North Carolina. Congress established the stations to help rescue passengers and cargo in the event of a shipwreck – a...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Feb 8, 2018 | Against the Odds, Courage Under Fire, Hanging on to Hope
The 120 year old San Jose gold and copper mine twenty eight miles north of Copiapo, Chile, had been grumbling and groaning for several months, an audible warning of impending danger. Although management assured them everything was safe, the miners feared the mine’s...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Sep 21, 2017 | Courage Under Fire, Persistence
Born Christmas Day 1821, in Oxford, Massachusetts, and referred to by her parents as their “Christmas Angel” she would later be known as the “Angel of the Battlefield.” The youngest of five children, it was apparent from an early age that Clarissa Harlowe Barton, who...
