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It took Michael three hours on a Greyhound bus to get the Bowling Green, which was half way to Nashville.  Had his mom or dad driven him to Bowling Green, it would have only taken an hour.  The whole trip there, Michael kept wondering if his twenty five year old brother, Bobby, would be there […]

Michael had asked his father and brother, Darrell, to help him start a racing career and they both said no.  He was now going to talk to his other brother, Bobby.  Bobby had recently moved from Owensboro to Tennessee to go to work for Darrell.  Darrell had started a race car parts business and asked […]

Even though Michael didn’t know his older brother Darrell very well, he decided if his father wouldn’t help him, he was going to ask Darrell.  Darrell was much older and always traveling to the different race tracks, that Michael did not get to grow up at home with his brother.  Michael called Darrell and told […]

When Michael Waltrip  was eleven years old, his dream was to become a NASCAR driver.  One day, he got up enough nerve and asked his dad if he would buy him a go-kart.  Michael’s father said “Yeah, we know you do.  SO does every other kid in this town.  They all want to do what […]

One of the first things Michael remembers doing with his dad was the Sunday morning trips to McDonald”s.  It was just Michael and his dad.  They would order three Egg McMuffins and share the third one.  “That may not sound like much.  They were just Egg McMuffins.  But those Sunday-morning breakfasts were the first thing […]

In the Blink of an Eye is an auto-biography by Michael Waltrip, a NASCAR driver.  Michael was the youngest of five children and grew up in Owensboro, KY.  His older brother, Darrell, was the first to show interest in racing.  Michael grew up at home with is mother, while Darrell and his father were at […]

When Chiarini reached the Marines, he saw that they all had suffered shrapnel wounds to their arms, legs, and faces.  Some was more severe than others.  He also realized that the militants were shooting at them from three directions.  The drive of the lead Humvee was temporarily blinded from the flash of the blast.  The driver was […]

Hospital Corpsman Third Class Joshua Chiarini wanted to help the group in the lead vehicle who had just be hit.  As his vehicle moved closer, a much larger explosion tore into the men in the first Humvee.  “two 155-mm artillery shells hidden in a sandbag discharged deadly shrapnel through the air, slicing into them.”  Chiarini […]

Joshua Chiarini was a hospital Corpsman Third Class in the United States Army.  One morning,  Chiarini was riding shotgun in the third of a four-vehicle convoy sent out to do a routine IED sweep. The group was to check the road for hidden bombs. ” Chiarini’s group was one of more than a dozen out […]

Within four months of their arrival in the region, Master Sergeant Sarun Sar and his team had won the trust of the villagers.  In return, the villagers provided him with valuable intelligence concerning the Taliban.  Once or twice a week, Sar and his team had run-ins with the Taliban.  “Sar attended weekly shuras, meetings held […]