Courage of a Hero

In last week’s blog post, people wondered about A Quirky Old Man who every Friday evening would walk to the end of a fishing pier with a bucket of shrimp to feed the seagulls.  This week’s blog post explains why he did this.  It’s called Courage of a Hero. On one of his flying missions across the Pacific, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker and his six-member crew looked for the island of destination.  They never spotted it and could not get bearings from the ill-equipped island.   They were nearly out of fuel and knew once they crashed into the sea, they Read More

A Quirky Old Man

It happened every Friday evening, almost without fail, when the sun resembled a giant, orange ball sliding into the blue ocean. Ed strolls along the beach to his favorite pier,  Clutched in his bony hand was a bucket of shrimp.  Ed walks out to the end of the pier, where it seems he has the world – devoid of fear and death – to himself.  The glow of the sun is a golden bronze now. Everybody’s gone, except for a few joggers along the beach.  Standing out on the end of the pier, Ed is alone with this thoughts…and his Read More