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Fortune Favors the Bold – Monroe Journal – November 13, 2014

Fortune Favors the Bold – Monroe Journal – November 13, 2014

by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jan 14, 2019 | Beating the Odds, Courage Under Fire, Iron-willed

March 23, 2002 – Innova Fairfax Hospital – Falls Church, Virginia: After reading the MRI, the doctor turned to former Army Four-Star General Hugh Shelton and grimly commented, “General, I am going to put it to you straight. You are never going to walk again. You may...
The Birmingham Preacher – February 22, 2018

The Birmingham Preacher – February 22, 2018

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,...
Open the Eyes of the King – Monroe Journal, December 14, 2017

Open the Eyes of the King – Monroe Journal, December 14, 2017

by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Dec 27, 2017 | Iron-willed, Never Lose Heart, Overcoming Adversity

1401 A.D. London, England: King Henry IV declared that religious heretics would be burned at the stake. Seven years later, the Roman Catholic Church, at that time England’s official church, used its considerable influence to have a law passed that made it a crime to...
Reaching the Other Shore – Monroe Journal, June 8, 2017

Reaching the Other Shore – Monroe Journal, June 8, 2017

by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Aug 29, 2017 | Determination Despite the Odds, Iron-willed, Overcoming Adversity

When Diana Nyad was five years old, her father, who was of Greek descent, pointed to her name in the dictionary – Diana, a Greek goddess, and said to her, “Some day you will be a famous swimmer like Diana.” By the time Nyad discovered that her Greek namesake had...
The Tree Hugging Hippy – Monroe Journal, August 10, 2017

The Tree Hugging Hippy – Monroe Journal, August 10, 2017

by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Aug 13, 2017 | Iron-willed, Persistence, Refusing to Quit

To the loggers and company officials at Maxxam Lumber in Humboldt, California, 23-year-old Julia “Butterfly” Hill was an “extremist tree-hugging hippy radical environmentalist.” To the environmental activists at Earth First, she was a courageous, inspirational,...

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