life. you ve got to come to dinner. it s not up to me tell you how smart you are. the son to tell the father. well, take care of yourself. i love you and be good. clearly what i know from the book is the strategy and the plot is to totally undermine him and outmaneuver him and pass this bill despite russell s opposition. and you re exactly right. you summarized it better than i could. but russell knows what he s dealing with. he tells a friend. says, you know, we could ve beaten kennedy in the civil rights, we can t beat lyndon johnson. he says he s a man that understands power and how to use it. he ll tear your arm off at the shoulder and beat you over the head with it. but he ll get your votes. we re going to lose to lyndon johnson. and lose is exactly what russell did. on june 10th, 1964, the senate voted to end the filibuster and soon after pass the bill. on july 2nd, lyndon johnson, the
by myself. from what i remember, that s where i was. that s the best view, so i can imagine that s where i would be sitting. since it was a nice night and the lake was calm, harry didn t tie his boat to the dock, so it drifted while he waited for his friends to return. then they heard a loud noise. harry stood up, and there was a crash. there was blood everywhere. i felt like a big monster or something came out of the water and bit my arm off. harry uhl was pronounced dead at the scene. he was just 27 years old. he died instantly. he was probably standing up to try to figure out what was coming. and then just got just got hit in the dark by this massive object. harry s passenger, nasreen raza, was rushed to the hospital after losing an enormous amount of blood.
while i was on a combat patrol my c in baqubah, iraq,nned out. a rocket-propelled grenade took my arm off at the shoulder. when i came home, i felt alone. my family was around me, but i couldn t talk to them about what i d seen and what i d done. i remember just thinking, man, the way i am right now, i don t want to live. i was discharged from the army, and i ve been working with the wounded warrior project since 2007. warriors don t have to be severely wounded to be with the wounded warrior project. we do have a lot of guys that have post-traumatic stress disorder. being able to share your story, i guess it kind of helps you wrap your mind around what did happen over there. just because you ve left the military doesn t mean your life is over, because when these guys are coming home, i m kind of leading and training them, instead of for combat, i m leading and training them to heal. and if i come away with anything from the wounded warrior project, it s them giving my life back. my nam
it s a decision that may have saved his life. it was a week later. a gentleman did the same thing up around denver. he hook turned it and hit the ground. he s dead. ferguson survives the impact, but he doesn t escape injury. i broke eight bones. i bruised my left lung. of course, my arm was yanked out of its socket. that s where it broke the brachial plexus, which is all the nerves that control the left side of your arm, your hand, your fingers and stuff like that. every nerve is severed and ferguson loses all feeling and movement in his left arm. 3 1/2 months after the accident, he makes a difficult decision. i literally asked them to take my arm off. it was cumbersome. it was just hanging off of me. it s doing nothing. my doctor said, yeah, there s no use keeping it there. ferguson may have suffered a
i said throw it on me. another time he told us it was an accident that it occurred. at one point he admitted that somebody purposely tried to hurt him. i walked up to the bars because i thought someone said bozo. that s what the guys call me. i went up to the bars and splash they hit me with baby oil and hair grease and broke my arm off. i didn t see the person who did it, right? there were too many prisoners out, so i didn t see who it was. i m not the type that would tattletale on somebody anyway. right? whitlow acknowledged what might be his biggest problem in prison. most of it, the biggest percentage is how much i talk around the guys. one of the problems, issues i had was talking a lot. excessive talking without you know, going on and on a lot of times. not only was whitlow a sex offender, he was a sex offender that constantly talked about his