Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Denison Forum, and this is the Daily Article from Monday, July 30, 2018.

Adam Jobbers Miller grew up in Wayne, New Jersey, the son of a fireman. He served as a volunteer fireman with his father before he was hired as a police officer in Fort Myers, Florida.

Jobbers Miller was shot in the head on July 21st while responding to a report of a gunman

at a gas station. He underwent surgery but died of his injuries a week later. It takes tremendous

courage to risk one's life as a firefighter or a police officer. Jaubers Miller did both.

In other news, the remains of Captain Lawrence Dixon had been identified. He was the first

of more than two dozen black aviators known as Tuskegee Airmen, who went missing in action during

World War II. Dixon was 24 years old when he went down on a mission over Austria on December 23rd,

1944. Meanwhile, remains believed to be those of 55 American servicemen

were flown out of North Korea on Friday.

These incredible American heroes will soon lay at rest

on sacred American soil, President Trump said.

It takes courage to do a hard thing others will not do.

If it were easy, it would already be done.

Rocket Men is Robert Curson's best-selling story of the Apollo 8 space mission.

I was gripped by the book from start to finish.

Curson timed his narrative for the 50th anniversary of the first manned mission to leave Earth's

orbit, reach the moon, orbit it, and return to Earth

safely. I was vaguely familiar with Apollo 8. I was 10 years old at the time, but I remember

far better the Apollo 11 mission that placed the first man on the moon six months later.

What I didn't realize was that, without Apollo 8, there could have been no Apollo 11.

If NASA couldn't fly astronauts safely to and from the moon, they obviously couldn't put them safely on it.

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