by Motivated Magazine | Sep 22, 2010 | Reflect
My story begins in a village in Vietnam…with a bomb and a photograph. Until June 8, 1972, the day napalm fell on Trang Bang, I was a happy child. I was nine years old; I knew nothing about war. My most serious injury had been scraping my knees when I fell off my...
by Motivated Magazine | Sep 17, 2010 | Grow
Landing at a barren grass airstrip in Northern Uganda, I’m caught off guard at the sight of a jeep full of soldiers armed with AK-47s slowly driving away. Apparently, Africans take runway clearance seriously— meandering gazelles would not have had a chance! It’s the...