Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
The ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.
Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.