Finding Heroes
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (746 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 189495341X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
BigAl said Finding Heroes. This is the kind of book that I have a hard time picturing someone wandering the bookstore or library looking for without a very specific goal, whether it is learning more about the Columbia disaster or something broader like volunteerism or how people react in disasters. Yet I've stumbled upon books like this, thought they looked interesting, and curiosity was enough to prompt me to try them. Sometimes
"Finding Heroes" is the story of the search and recovery effort during the 2003 Columbia disaster, from the point of view of several residents of Sabine County, Texas. Starr and his family run a third-generation funeral home in the area and were called upon, along with hundreds of other volunteers from the area, to help search for and catalogue debris from the shuttle, and sadly, the bodies of the astronauts. Mr. In searching for the heroes in the pineywoods of East Texas, they discovered the heroes within themselves, and in the community of volunteerism.