December 18, 2022
I knew Eddie Rickenbacker was an American flying ace in World War I, and won the Medal of Honor, but I didn’t know that much about the rest of his life until now. Rickenbacker grew up in poverty. His parents were struggling immigrants from Switzerland. His home had no electricity, plumbing, or heat. He ran […]
December 16, 2022
I just read to my 8-year old twin daughters about an exceptional person I never heard of before: Bessie Coleman, the first African-American woman pilot, and the first Native American pilot. Bessie was born in 1892 to a family of sharecroppers in Texas. Her family was part Cherokee. She walked four miles every day to […]