This memoir is about the experiences of this young boy, probably here by accident, stumbling through life, facing many challenges, making probably every mistake possible, learning at an early age the power of God and prayer and then realizing, finally, that so many people, many he never knew, were in his corner, pulling for him to succeed. We hope you will follow the "snapshot" thinking of this eighty-one-year­­-old senior citizen, born in 1936 at a time when our country was still drowning in a state of deep depression. The South was laboring under the oppressive laws of segregation, and his family was constantly struggling to survive a state of utter poverty. His is a story of survival, hope, and redemption.