This story should be printed and left where you
will see it often - and then every time you come across a project you think you
cannot successfully complete read this story again.
Eight-year-old Glenn Cunningham raced into a burning
schoolhouse to rescue his big brother. When he regained consciousness five hours
later, his brother was dead and Glenn's horribly burned legs lay limp and
without feeling. Specialists urged his parents to have Glenn's legs amputated
immediately - he would never walk again - but Glenn pleaded against them. Even
though the toes of his left foot were gone and the bone supporting the ball of
his left foot practically destroyed, Glenn was determined to walk again.
That was the summer of 1919. One week later Glenn
announced he was ready to stand up. His father lifted him out of bed, stood him
upright and let go. Glenn crumpled to the floor. Every day Glenn's parents
carefully rubbed his dead limbs. Every day for weeks, they repeated the
lifting-falling exercise. Then one day, for a few seconds, Glenn Cunningham
stood on his own.
A few days later Glenn took a few small, shaky steps. His
parents kept on rubbing his legs. He ate carefully and began to push himself
hard, running everywhere he went - to the fields, to the store, to
school.
In 1930, with no toes on his left foot and almost missing
a major bone, Glenn Cunningham set a high school record for the mile run,
4:24.7. He enrolled in Kansas University and two years later qualified for the
Olympics with a United States record-setting mile of 4:11.1. Despite tonsillitis
at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1932, he still finished fourth. He defeated
milers around the world, repeatedly breaking his own records. In his early
thirties he retired, holding the world mile record of 4:04.4.
~ From Little Books of Virtue ~
(thank you to Bob & Brian Proctor for sending this beautiful inspirational true story)
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