On an autumn morn in Wichita town,A Russian pilot came around.Sergey Galitzky, aged fifty-four,Walked through a flight simulator’s door. With translator close, he sought that day,To train on a Cessna and earn his pay.Inside the building, vast and wide,Where mock jets soared and screens collide. They met with Jay, aged seventy-eight,An instructor seasoned, calm and […]
At four o’clock on Saturday, the sky was calm and bright,The backyard buzzed with joy and love, hearts glowing with delight.In Knoxville, Iowa, a family stood with cheer,To celebrate a baby soon to grace their lives so near. Pamela, aged fifty-six, with laughter in her eyes,Stood filming in her son’s backyard beneath the autumn skies.She
In fifty-six, September’s end,Young Nyarri walked with childlike friends.Through Maralinga’s desert heat,They stalked the roos in dry retreat. Three brothers from the Martu clan,With spear and boomerang in hand.They hunted not for sport or fame,But for the kin from which they came. The kangaroos would dash and dart,Just as they’d nearly play their part.Again they
On April the twenty-second day,In Cumbria’s land, not far away,A father of three, brave Carlo Keefe,Embarked on a journey beyond belief. Adventurous, bold, and full of cheer,He loved to climb and crawl with no fear.This cave he’d known just once or twice,Seemed harmless, playful, calm, and nice. No map in hand, no need for dread,A
On the evening of October 27th, 2014, 17-year-old Jesus Maness found himself at Kinloch Park in Miami, Florida, immersed in a fast-paced basketball game with a group of friends. The sun was beginning to set, and the court buzzed with energy as the two teams battled it out. Jesus’s team was holding their own in
On the night of August 20, 2012, two best friends, 19-year-old Rosem and Elizabeth Nass, decided to spend their final evening together before parting ways for college. It had been a golden summer, and with both heading to different states for school, they wanted one last memory to hold on to. Their favorite spot in
On the evening of May 21, 2015, in a quiet neighborhood in Hong Kong, a 16-year-old girl named Lily walked into her home gym expecting an empty space to complete a workout. Instead, she found her father, Dr. Kakim’s Son, a well-respected hospital physician, finishing a workout of his own—cooling down on a yoga ball.
A Tragic Bible Study in Ulis, Texas On the evening of September 17, 2021, in the small city of Ulis, Texas—nestled between Dallas and Fort Worth—a 42-year-old preacher named Jason Thornberg prepared his motel room to host a Bible study group. Once a devoted man of God, Thornberg had lost his home in a fire
The Fatal Morning Drive That Shocked Brooklyn On the morning of July 7, 1967, 17-year-old Nancy Mchuan was driving along a scenic highway in Brooklyn, New York, on her way to work at her father’s office. Coming from her home in Long Island, she was enjoying the peaceful drive in her brand-new yellow Camaro, a
On the midday of June 1st, 2018, 36-year-old Luis Garcia made his way into Mexico City to link up with his elder sibling. The two of them were extremely tight-knit. They had endured a great deal together. When Luis was 14 and his brother was 15, their guardians had undergone a very chaotic separation. And
