To Inspire You

I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.

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Today In History

• In 1951 - PFC William H. Thompson, first African American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor since the Spanish American War, is awarded the honor, posthumously
  
• In 1980 - Eugenia Charles becomes first woman to head the independent nation of Dominica