by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Aug 3, 2018 | Determination Despite the Odds, Hanging on to Hope, Long Shots, Uncategorized
1986 – Burhanpur Railroad Station, Ganesh Talai, India: Saroo was terrified. The afternoon had begun with excitement as the five-year-old tagged along to the train station with his 14-year-old brother, Guddu, to find food and beg for money. Guddu left Saroo on a bench...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jul 31, 2018 | Adversity, Chasing Your Dream, Perserverance, Uncategorized
1824 – Mill Grove, Pennsylvania: It was a catastrophe! Returning from a trip to Philadelphia, he opened the storage closet of his small art studio only to find that rats had eaten their way into the boxes where he kept his bird paintings. The rodents had shredded the...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jul 20, 2018 | Long Shots, Never Give Up, Never Lose Heart, Uncategorized
3:00 AM, February 21, 1962 – Ft. Lauderdale, Florida: Wayne Huizenga drank his third cup of coffee. He had not slept much and it was going to be a long shift. Life had not turned out the way he had hoped. Many of his high school buddies had earned college degrees from...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jul 16, 2018 | Beating the Odds, Tests and Trials, Uncategorized, Underdogs
1956 – St. Louis, Missouri: Calvin Peete was in terrible pain. The 12-year-old had fallen out of a tree at his grandmother’s house and landed on his arm. The x-ray showed his left elbow was fractured in three places. The physician recommended surgery, but there was no...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jul 13, 2018 | Adversity, Courage Under Fire, Never Give Up, Uncategorized
Friday, July 3, 1863 – Near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Joshua Chamberlain and the 20th Maine Regiment were positioned on Little Round Top, a hill at the extreme left end of a line of 80,000 Union soldiers, which stretched out three miles all the way to Gettysburg,...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jul 9, 2018 | Adversity, Finding Hope, Overcoming Failure, Uncategorized
July 9, 1974 – Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama: He arrived at the federal minimum security prison at Maxwell to begin serving his three-year sentence. It was a somber day, full of remorse and remembering. At 38-years-old he had been on top of the...
