After college Louis joined the United States Army Air Corp and was assigned to be aboard a B-24 heavy bomber. While on a search and rescue mission aboard another B-24 his plane suffered a mechanical failure crashing into the ocean 850 miles from land. Three of the eleven men aboard initially survived the crash, and of those, two including Louis survived the 47 days at sea. This pair of men survive on a diet of raw fish and sea bird, while battling the raging seas and numerous shark attacks!

Young Harland was the oldest of three children when his father unexpectedly passed away. While living, his father worked as a farmer and then a butcher to support the family in their Henryville, Indiana home.  Many responsibilities fell on his mother, and even though he was only 5 years old, Harland was given the responsibility of preparing meals for his younger siblings. By the age of 7 Harold was preparing full meals before he took on a job as a farmhand at 10. Three years later he left home to pursue…

The Chinese bamboo plant develops just a little bit different. If you planted a bamboo seed and checked on it a few weeks later there would not be any observable difference in development. Those weeks would combine to form a month, then a year, and still no sign of development. As a few years pass, and the seed is believed to be dormant, on the bamboo seedling will pierce the soil during its 5th year…