When horrific things happen, how a person responds can make a difference in the rest of one's life. In this collection, learn how some individuals triumphed in the face of unspeakable tragedies.
Colonel Benjamin Oliver Davis, Jr.
David Balme, a 20-year-old Royal Navy officer has a formidable task. He must lead a group of sailors boarding a stricken U-boat. What will they find a...
By May 18, 2010, an expanding oil slick resulting from Deepwater Horizon's explosion, was just off the Mississippi Delta.
After an initial explosion which killed 11 of 126 workers aboard Deepwater Horizon, the oil rig had a second explosion on April 22, 2010.
Blair Manuel - from Gonzales, Louisiana - was 56 years old on the day Deepwater Horizon exploded.
In this photo, Dale Burkeen - victim of the Deepwater Horizon explosion - is with his son, Timothy, age 6.
Jason Anderson was the most senior of the eleven men who died in the Deepwater Horizon explosion.
Roy Wyatt Kemp was scheduled to come home, for a time, the day after Deepwater Horizon exploded.
Shane Roshto, an employee of Transocean, was 22 years old on the 20th of April, 2010.
John Vachon was a photographer for the Farm Security Administration where, he helped to document American life during the Great Depression.
The force of the explosion, which destroyed the BLT Headquarters in Beirut, was so powerful that people in nearby buildings - such as headquarters for...
Allies came ashore on August 19, 1942 to German occupiers at the ready, casualties were high.
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