____ boazpower.com ____(July 7, 2003) If we're honest, we all have moments when we regret not having achieved more in our lives. What if you found yourself, at the age of 65, looking back at a long string of disappointments? What if all you had to show for many different efforts throughout your life was a monthly social security check of $105? However, what if you had a dream and the drive of HS? We'll call him by his initials for the moment. His story is simply amazing. Let's take a close look at the road he took those first 60+ years. There wasn't much fanfare in Henryville, Indiana, on September 9, 1890, when he was born. Things did not go well in his childhood. When HS was six, his father died. As a result of his mother going to work to support the family, he had to take care of his three-year-old brother and a baby sister. That meant doing much of the family cooking. By the age of seven, he had mastered several regional dishes. His first job came at the age of ten. He worked on a nearby farm for $2 a month. When he was twelve, he dropped out of school and took to the road. There was a series of jobs that he didnt like. He was a farmhand at fourteen, a streetcar conductor at fifteen and, at the age of sixteen, he lied about his age so he could enroll in the army for a year. Without much success through his 20s and 30s, HS worked as a blacksmith, a railroad fireman with the Southern Railroad, studied law by correspondence, practiced in justice of the peace courts, sold ...