by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | May 14, 2018 | Courage Under Fire, Determination Despite the Odds, Uncategorized
February 20, 1962 – Cape Canaveral, Florida: Imagine being strapped into a small capsule atop a 75-foot Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile. Well aware that in the past, several previous launches had exploded on take-off, you trust that rocket engineers have the...
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...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Apr 30, 2018 | Compassion, Never Lose Heart, Overcoming Adversity, Uncategorized
October 1811 – Boston, Massachusetts: After applying to the American Board for Foreign Missions to become a missionary in India, Adoniram Judson discovered that single men were not accepted into the program. The twenty-three-year-old Brown University valedictorian and...
by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Apr 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
Walter grew up on a farm in Marceline, Missouri, in the early 1900’s. By age eight, he was selling his artwork to other children to earn spending money. His father thought his drawings were silly, but his mother thought he was Michelangelo. Walter dropped out of high...
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 | Feb 5, 2018 | Adversity, Against the Odds, Perserverance, Uncategorized
The baby boy was born to a slave woman in a one-room shanty on the Moses Carver plantation about the time the Civil War was ending in 1865. The exact date and year of his birth are unknown. Moses Carver, a German immigrant farmer in Diamond Grove, Missouri, had...
