by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jan 28, 2019 | Adversity, Against the Odds, Chasing Your Dream, Refusing to Quit
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...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Nov 19, 2018 | Chasing Your Dream, Hanging on to Hope, Refusing to Quit
1984 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Night after night Max sat at his desk working on his book. While he wrote, his wife, Denalyn, sat on the sofa doing cross-stitch. Writing a book had been a dream for Max. As a young pastor in Miami for two years, he had gotten plenty of...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Oct 22, 2018 | Chasing Your Dream, Perserverance, Refusing to Quit
November 7, 1939 – New Britain, Connecticut: Korczak Ziolkowski received a letter from Henry Standing Bear, a Lakota Indian Chief in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It began, “My fellow chiefs and I would like the white man to know that the red man has great heroes,...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Oct 1, 2018 | Never Give Up, Overcoming Adversity, Refusing to Quit
January 21, 1912 – Key West, Florida: At 10:34 a.m. the train from Miami arrived at the new Key West depot. Joined by dignitaries from North and South America, eighty-two-year-old Henry Flagler, with tears in his eyes, sat on the front seat of the first passenger car....
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Sep 10, 2018 | Adversity, Refusing to Quit, Rising Above Circumstances
More than 30 years later, Bob Brenly still gets letters from pastors. They want him to know that they used what happened to him in September 1986 as a teaching moment in a sermon. Mike Krukow, a San Francisco Giants pitcher, would agree. After that bizarre major...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Sep 6, 2018 | Never Give Up, Refusing to Quit, Underdogs
September 7, 1892, 9:00 p.m. – New Orleans, Louisiana: On a hot, sultry night in New Orleans more than 10,000 men, and a few women, crowded into the recently electrically illuminated Olympic Club to watch the Heavy Weight Boxing Championship. Tickets to the match...
