If 1% of people who read this post have a clue of whom Felix Lucero is, I will be shocked, pleasantly shocked, but shocked nonetheless. Mr. Lucero is as good an example as there is of a man who gave back to life more than it gave to him, and he performed quite extraordinary deeds […]
Category Archives: Heroes
Anne Frank, June 12, 1929 – early March 1945
Earlier this week, a tVM subscriber pointed me to the official website of Tom Shadyac’s film “I Am.” How or when I will see it, I don’t know, but I WILL see it. The trailer grabbed my guts and the final statement struck with power: “We started by asking ‘What’s wrong with the world,’ and […]
Luz Long, Silver Medalist, Berlin 1936
In 1967, the guest speaker at the annual athletic awards banquet at the United States Air Force Academy was Jesse Owens, the great American Olympian whose four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics spoiled Adolf Hitler’s planned Aryan showcase. I was 18-years old and felt very special and very humble as I looked to the […]