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Operation Donkey – Monroe Journal – July 13, 2023

Operation Donkey – Monroe Journal – July 13, 2023

by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jul 17, 2023 | Compassion, Persistence, Refusing to Quit

“When you start a thing, don’t quit until you finish it.”    Henry Ford Sunday, May 8, 2008 – Camp Taqaddum, Fallujah, Iraq: U.S. Marine Colonel John Folsom, the base commander of the Marine 1st Combat Logistics Battalion, was accustomed to waking up to the sound of...
The Man Under the Armour – Monroe Journal – April 27, 2023

The Man Under the Armour – Monroe Journal – April 27, 2023

by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | May 1, 2023 | Long Shots, Overcoming Adversity, Persistence

“There’s an entrepreneur right now who is making excuses about starting a business. There’s no such thing as a good time to start. Get out of your garage, take a chance and start your business.”                        Kevin Plank 1997 – Washington, D.C.: Kevin Plank’s...
A Confederacy of Dunces – Monroe Journal – April 14, 2022

A Confederacy of Dunces – Monroe Journal – April 14, 2022

by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Apr 26, 2022 | Perserverance, Persistence, Refusing to Quit

“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.”                       Henry W. Longfellow March 26, 1969 – New Orleans, Louisiana: Ken Toole, a 31-year-old English professor,...
The Dream of an Old Geezer – Monroe Journal – Feb 9, 2017

The Dream of an Old Geezer – Monroe Journal – Feb 9, 2017

by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Dec 16, 2021 | Perserverance, Persistence

“I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail, I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult… I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any...
The Invention Nobody Wanted – Monroe Journal – August 2, 2018

The Invention Nobody Wanted – Monroe Journal – August 2, 2018

by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Sep 20, 2018 | Adversity, Perserverance, Persistence

October 22, 1938 – Small apartment in Queens, New York: Chester Carlson and his buddy Otto Kornei, an unemployed physicist, stared at each other in disbelief. After a year of experiments in the kitchen, several fires, and an angry wife, they had produced the world’s...
Fifty-Nine Years Later – Monroe Journal, March 16, 2017

Fifty-Nine Years Later – Monroe Journal, March 16, 2017

by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | May 11, 2018 | Beating the Odds, Determination Despite the Odds, Persistence, Uncategorized

2009, The New York Times – 400 Most Influential New Yorkers List: Pete Hamill, the distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, made “The 400 Most Influential New Yorkers in the Past 400 Years” list. When an...
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