He lost the love of his life. When his wife Mary died, Dan Peterson went into a deep depression. For six months, this 82-year-old widower of Augusta, Georgia, did very little except look out his window at the squirrels in his yard.But one day at the grocery store, his...
Debris and lots of ashes. That was all that was left after heavy equipment demolished the remains of the home of Tony and Juanita Taylor in Luther, Oklahoma, after it was destroyed by a fire in December of 2016. The greatest loss was the life of Tony, Juanita’s...
In June of 1998, Ed Leonard, a 60-year-old Canadian driller, accepted a job with Terramundo Drilling to work in Colombia, South America as a drilling foreman. On June 24, seven days after he arrived in Colombia, he was taken captive by armed rebels who demanded a...
On February 2, 1984, President Ronald Reagan spoke at the Annual National Prayer Breakfast in the International Ballroom at the Washington Hilton Hotel.After greeting the assembly which included many U.S. Senators and Representatives, President Reagan said: “In a...
During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln frequently visited the hospitals and addressed cheering words to the wounded warriors. On one occasion he found a young soldier whose legs had been amputated, and who was evidently sinking rapidly.“Is there anything I can do for...
Joey Spann, minister of the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in Antioch, TN, thought he was going to die.Spann was one of the shooting victims when a masked man firing a gun entered the Burnette Chapel church building on Sunday morning after worship services on...
Bryan Chapell recalls that on August 16, 1987, Northwest Airlines flight 225 crashed just after taking off from the Detroit airport, killing 155 people. One survived: a four-year-old from Tempe, Arizona, named Cecelia.News accounts say when rescuers found Cecelia they...