Speaker 1: Can you believe we've passed Christmas and soon it will
Speaker 1: be the New Year? How did that happen? It seems
Speaker 1: like I just finished up doing the Thanksgiving dinner dishes
Speaker 1: and bam, it was Christmas. I vaguely remember some frenzied shopping,
Speaker 1: some kids Christmas concerts, a few basketball games, and then
Speaker 1: wrapping and cooking in between. But the last month it's
Speaker 1: all a bit of a blur. I do love the holidays, though,
Speaker 1: yes they're busy, and yes there are moments I feel
Speaker 1: more than a little bit frantic. But the Holidays are
Speaker 1: also filled with magic and wonder and grace and hope,
Speaker 1: the Nativity scene, the Baby and a Manger. I still
Speaker 1: look forward to this season year after magical year. I
Speaker 1: still believe in the promise of that babe in the manger,
Speaker 1: and I will never give up on the dream of
Speaker 1: peace on earth, goodwill towards men. Neither will my guest
Speaker 1: on the podcast today, let me read you the bio
Speaker 1: on our guests that was sent to me. Okay, from
Speaker 1: a young age, T Martin Bennett could be found running
Speaker 1: from his mother in department stores and often to the unknown.
Speaker 1: This would mark the beginning of many highs and lows,
Speaker 1: and eventually lead T. Martin to journey around the world
Speaker 1: to write his non fiction novel Wounded Tiger. Along the way,
Speaker 1: T Martin attended then dropped out of college, co founded
Speaker 1: a company that gross twenty million per year, which received
Speaker 1: the presidential award of Entrepreneur of the Year from the
Speaker 1: Small Business Administration, became the vice president of a successful nonprofit,
Speaker 1: trained inmates in federal prison, and lived in poverty on
Speaker 1: a friend's couch to research this book. T Martin Bennett
Speaker 1: has five wonderful kids and has never lost the joy
Speaker 1: in his life or his life in God. Martin believes
Speaker 1: that there is a plan and purpose for each of us,
Speaker 1: and when you find it, you run with it. Wounded
Speaker 1: Tiger is the compelling true story of Mintsu Fuchinda, the
Speaker 1: Japanese pilot who led the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor
Speaker 1: and World War Two. Its author, T Martin Binnett is
Speaker 1: with us today to share more about the story, recently
Speaker 1: reprinted in its third edition, and how he came about
Speaker 1: writing it. I think this conversation is a fantastic way
Speaker 1: to wrap up Season five of Love Someone. Wounded Tiger is,
Speaker 1: after all, an almost unbelievable story of hope that is
Speaker 1: ultimately about how love overcomes hate. We will dig right
Speaker 1: in with T Martin Bennett right after I share a
Speaker 1: short story of nonfiction with you, the story of one
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Speaker 1: our final edition of Love Someone for the year twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three. We are going out with a roar, a
Speaker 1: Wounded Tiger roar for our podcast season five this year,
Speaker 1: which I think is fortuitous. I think it's appropriate that
Speaker 1: we're talking to an author of a book about bitterness
Speaker 1: and what compels somebody to do heinous things in war,
Speaker 1: given where we're at in the world today and how
Speaker 1: much we need God and love and peace on earth,
Speaker 1: goodwill towards men. So we're going to talk about the
Speaker 1: story of Wounded Tiger, But first I want to find
Speaker 1: out t Martin Bennett, how you found yourself to telling
Speaker 1: this story, how you found your way to be the
Speaker 1: voice to bring the story of Wounded Tiger to life.
Speaker 2: Delilah, thanks for having me on your show. It's a
Speaker 2: great question. Before I answer, I just want to say
Speaker 2: thank you for your show. I remember years in the
Speaker 2: past being really kind of distraught about my life situation
Speaker 2: and hearing your show and how you interview people about
Speaker 2: their songs, why they like them. You just were very
Speaker 2: personable and I really really appreciate it immensely. So when
Speaker 2: we started this campaign, I said, listen, I want to
Speaker 2: get on Deliah. I said, well, she's pretty difficult to do.
Speaker 2: So when we got this, I thought, man, I'm really
Speaker 2: really happy because I really really do like your show.
Speaker 2: I think you make a positive impact on the world,
Speaker 2: and I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you. We need we need positivity right now.
Speaker 1: It seems like I can't listen to most media because
Speaker 1: it is so divisive and so agenda driven. And here
Speaker 1: on the Delilah Show and on Love, someone got we
Speaker 1: have no My only agenda is to share love and
Speaker 1: be light in a very dark world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's beautiful and that's good connection. So in a
Speaker 2: world today where there's fighting in war and killing and
Speaker 2: death and which has been going on since the dawn
Speaker 2: of the history of mankind, Wounded Tiger is a story
Speaker 2: of hatred turned to love and war turned to peace,
Speaker 2: and how the leader of the attack on Pearl Harbor
Speaker 2: who despised Americans, how his heart changed and his life changed.
Speaker 2: And also a guy named Jake Deschazer who was on
Speaker 2: a bombing run against the Japanese. He became a prisoner
Speaker 2: of war, was in solitary confinement for forty months, tortured, debt,
Speaker 2: thrived in solitary confinement, eating the worst of the worst food,
Speaker 2: sick on the point of death. And he said in
Speaker 2: his own words, he was crazy with hatred toward the Japanese.
Speaker 2: So here we have two people who hate it and
Speaker 2: despise each other at the highest levels possible, and were
Speaker 2: actively killing people of the other nation. And yet this
Speaker 2: story as it develops, their lives turn around one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: So when people see wars and killing in death, nobody
Speaker 2: has any solutions. There are no solutions, at least that
Speaker 2: doesn't look like it. So what Wounded Tiger is, it's
Speaker 2: not telling you what to do. It's a demonstration of
Speaker 2: what happened in their lives. And for that reason, it's
Speaker 2: very positive and very encouraging. There is hope.
Speaker 1: And how did you find your way to the story.
Speaker 1: I read your bio. I wouldn't imagine somebody with your
Speaker 1: bio would would take it upon themselves to delve into
Speaker 1: and literally you wrapped yourself up in the cloak of
Speaker 1: this this heartbreaking story from the war, and wore it
Speaker 1: until you wore it out, until you came out on
Speaker 1: the other side and telling the story. How did did
Speaker 1: you find? How did that happen?
Speaker 2: Well? First of all, I love history. I love true stories.
Speaker 2: When I was in grade school, I read biographies. I
Speaker 2: love true stories, documentaries, movies, whatever, fast forward. I worked
Speaker 2: for years on a screenplay on the life of John Newton,
Speaker 2: who wrote the song Amazing Grace. He was a slave
Speaker 2: trader in the seventeen hundreds. His life story is absolutely
Speaker 2: mind boggling. He almost died on like twenty five occasions.
Speaker 2: And so I finished that. I'm extremely committed to doing
Speaker 2: that as a film. I met with a producer three
Speaker 2: months ago, and we're going to do this. But what
Speaker 2: happened with this story of Wounded Tiger and the life
Speaker 2: of Mitsuo Fuchia is that I came across a used
Speaker 2: book from a defunct publisher about this guy's life and Delilah.
Speaker 2: I have a pretty good working knowledge of World War
Speaker 2: two in the Pacific War, and I know a lot
Speaker 2: of redemption stories. I never heard anything about this guy's life,
Speaker 2: so I have very low expectations. But as I started
Speaker 2: studying his life.
Speaker 1: Okay, wait, back up, back up, back up, back up,
Speaker 1: because I'm seeing in my mind's eye you stumbling upon
Speaker 1: this book right like did a light go off and
Speaker 1: angels sing and say you must read this? Or were
Speaker 1: you just like whoa funky old dusty books?
Speaker 2: Because I'm curious about them and with his story, I
Speaker 2: was just curious about his story. But once I started
Speaker 2: getting into it, to be extremely honest, Elilah, I remember
Speaker 2: exactly where I was sitting. I was sitting in a
Speaker 2: folding chair in a barn and a stable that is
Speaker 2: my daughter was riding horses. I could smell the hay,
Speaker 2: hear the sparrows chirping. And as I'm studying this book,
Speaker 2: I said, God, are you telling me to do this
Speaker 2: as a movie because this would be a absolutely epic, compelling,
Speaker 2: cinematic story. I mean, this is just has everything to
Speaker 2: make a great film. So as I started praying that
Speaker 2: before I could finish it, I really sense the Lord
Speaker 2: said Martin, get it done, just do it, And I thought,
Speaker 2: oh wow, this is going to be difficult because I
Speaker 2: don't know a lot about Japanese history. I don't know
Speaker 2: the Japanese side. So we all know the Pearl Harbor attack,
Speaker 2: and we know that the Allied troops we want in
Speaker 2: the war, but we don't really know what was going
Speaker 2: on in Japan, what motivated them. So that's how I
Speaker 2: came into the story, and once I had that sense
Speaker 2: of a mandate to get it done, rolled up my
Speaker 2: sleeves and I spent three years reading thousands and thousands
Speaker 2: of pages of primary source documents, secondary source documents, meeting
Speaker 2: with experts, meeting with family members, corresponding, doing everything I
Speaker 2: could to figure out what this story was all about.
Speaker 2: And a funny thing in doing this, Jalilah, is that
Speaker 2: I would dig through piles of dirt, so to speak,
Speaker 2: information that's useless, and then you come across these gold nuggets.
Speaker 2: So you've got to be kidding me. You have got
Speaker 2: to be kidding me. So there's many things in this
Speaker 2: story that are, however you want to call it, providential, circumstantial, supernatural.
Speaker 2: They're like, how in the world did this happen? And
Speaker 2: that's one of the things that's really fun about this story.
Speaker 2: It also has a very very positive ending in a
Speaker 2: story where there's a lot of death and killing and
Speaker 2: torture and you're thinking, how can this ever end? Well?
Speaker 2: But it does?
Speaker 1: Anna are we going to get to know how it
Speaker 1: does in this interview or are we going to just
Speaker 1: dangle that little I mean, I know because I read
Speaker 1: I read all the synopsis of it. But I kind
Speaker 1: of think our listeners need to get the book or
Speaker 1: wait for the movie.
Speaker 2: But well, my job is to set up the story,
Speaker 2: but not to spoil the story. Nobody wants to spoiler
Speaker 2: if they're going to read the book or watch the movies.
Speaker 2: So there are three plot lines in this story. Mitsu
Speaker 2: Puchita was handpicked by Amil Yamamoto to lead the Pearl
Speaker 2: Harbor attack and the Midway attack. He was all over
Speaker 2: the war in all the key places, and he was
Speaker 2: driven by selfish ambition and by national ambition. He wanted
Speaker 2: to be a rock star in the military. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's that's a cool position where everybody thinks you're cool.
Speaker 1: And according to you, he hated hated us like.
Speaker 2: He despised America. And when he bombed Pearl Harvard, he
Speaker 2: considered the happiest day of his life. He thought Americans
Speaker 2: were arrogant and he didn't want to have anything to
Speaker 2: do with him. So that's that's only half of the story.
Speaker 2: That's about fifty percent of the story. Then thirty percent
Speaker 2: of his goy named Jake Deschaser. He's an American who
Speaker 2: couldn't get a job. Tried a bunch of different things
Speaker 2: and nothing worked out. So he joined the Army. Not uncommon,
Speaker 2: he ended up volunteering for the US Army Air Corps,
Speaker 2: which was the precursor of the Air Force. And after
Speaker 2: the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, well, he was just like
Speaker 2: every red blooded American, I turned me loose, I'm going
Speaker 2: to help kill Japanese. I just want revenge. So he
Speaker 2: volunteered on a mission to bomb Japan that was the
Speaker 2: Doolotle Rate in April nineteen forty two, but his plane
Speaker 2: ran out of fuel. He bails out over occupied China.
Speaker 2: He becomes a prisoner war and it's actual, I mean,
Speaker 2: it just was hell on earth. Torture, deprivation, his buddy's
Speaker 2: getting shot, another guy dying from exposure. It was hell
Speaker 2: on Earth. And he realized that. In his own words,
Speaker 2: he said he was crazy with hatred and he didn't
Speaker 2: want to live that way, and he remembered his mom.
Speaker 2: So this is really a shout out to all the
Speaker 2: moms are out there. You don't realize how powerful a
Speaker 2: position you're in until you see the impact on your
Speaker 2: son our daughters when they're in a place where they
Speaker 2: need hope and they remember their mother. And that's what
Speaker 2: happened with Jake Deschazer. He knew she was a good
Speaker 2: and godly woman, and they started seeking God and then
Speaker 2: supernatural things started happening. They're really quite unbelievable and very encouraging.
Speaker 2: So that's the two plot lines. Then the third plot
Speaker 2: line are the Covel family. There are teachers who are
Speaker 2: highly educated in the Chicago area. They traveled to Japan,
Speaker 2: they had their kids there. They loved the Japanese people.
Speaker 2: They did missions work. They helped the poorest of the poor.
Speaker 2: But when the country was ramping up for war, it
Speaker 2: was not a welcome place for Americans. So they fled
Speaker 2: to the Philippines, where they got a job teaching at
Speaker 2: a university, and they sent their kids back to the
Speaker 2: United States. So that's the setup of these three plot lines.
Speaker 2: They really had nothing to do with each other. But slowly,
Speaker 2: one click at a time, they start getting closer and
Speaker 2: closer to each other. And the key part of the
Speaker 2: entire story of Wounded Tiger is a young lady named
Speaker 2: Peggy Covel. She was the fulcrum of change and she
Speaker 2: was thousands of miles away from him. And how this
Speaker 2: happens and why it happens is like odds were millions
Speaker 2: to one that this would happen. If this were a
Speaker 2: fictional story, Deliah, it would not be any good because
Speaker 2: people say, Martin, that's just too far out. But it's
Speaker 2: a true story. It really did happen, and that's part
Speaker 2: of what makes it really really exciting and compelling.
Speaker 1: I can't wait. I can't wait for it to be
Speaker 1: on the big screen.
Speaker 2: Well, I am working towards that. I wrote the screenplay first,
Speaker 2: then I novelized a book for him. A couple of
Speaker 2: years ago, I was contacted by Gabe Bidella, the producer
Speaker 2: of Hacksaw Ridge. She said, what's going on with the movie.
Speaker 2: I told him that I received offers, but they were
Speaker 2: all secular and they want a full creative control. And
Speaker 2: the last thing I wanted was, you know, Jesus turning
Speaker 2: into higher power, sex scenes and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: I thought, I can't do that, so it's a deal breaker.
Speaker 2: I needed to be able to protect the integrity of
Speaker 2: the story. I'm not doing it for the money. I
Speaker 2: turned out a lot of money to just protect the story.
Speaker 2: So he said, Martin, get the book to the top
Speaker 2: of the charts. That's when the investors will come to you.
Speaker 2: So we have an investor. We're doing a national campaign.
Speaker 2: But as a footnote to all this, about two months ago,
Speaker 2: six weeks ago, and attorney contacted me. He said, Martin,
Speaker 2: I'm very close friends with a billionaire. I think you
Speaker 2: would like to come in on this project. Please send
Speaker 2: me an executive summary. So I expect that that will
Speaker 2: happen one hundred percent and people will get to see
Speaker 2: it on the big screen. This is not about bonds,
Speaker 2: planes and ships. It's a character driven story. The majority
Speaker 2: of the readers are females, and a lot of people
Speaker 2: are not religious in any way, shape or form. And
Speaker 2: they've told me with tears in their eyes, Wow, amazing. Story.
Speaker 2: Really hit me hard.
Speaker 1: All because you found an old book. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: out of Red Book, and.
Speaker 2: That's by another guy. Recently, he said, Martin how is
Speaker 2: it the world doesn't know this story? That's a good question.
Speaker 2: I think this is the greatest story of all of
Speaker 2: World War two. I've had many people tell me it
Speaker 2: was the best story they'd ever read in their life.
Speaker 2: If you go to Amazon right now and look at
Speaker 2: Wonda Tiger, one of the reviews says, this might be
Speaker 2: the most extraordinary story I've ever read in my life,
Speaker 2: and other similar reviews like that. So I'm not saying
Speaker 2: I'm a good writer. I'm saying this is a me
Speaker 2: true story. I did my best to do justice to
Speaker 2: the story.
Speaker 1: And this is the third publication. I understand there's pictures
Speaker 1: in here that have never been never been published before.
Speaker 1: How did you find them?
Speaker 2: Right? So I self published the first two editions and
Speaker 2: this one has over three hundred photos, images, maps, letters.
Speaker 2: That really brings to life that these are real people.
Speaker 2: And when people read the book, they just tell me, Martin,
Speaker 2: I felt like I was there while these things were happening.
Speaker 2: So that's what I wanted. I wanted a very immersive,
Speaker 2: engaging experience. Another thing I did with this book, Delia,
Speaker 2: that's very unusual is although it's a true story, I
Speaker 2: did not write it in the format of nonfiction. I
Speaker 2: wrote it in the format of fiction because fiction is dynamic,
Speaker 2: but it's a true story. This is what Truman Capoti
Speaker 2: did for the book in Cold Blood, It's what Michael
Speaker 2: Chera did for the book Gettysburg, And that's what I
Speaker 2: felt was the best format for this book. It reads
Speaker 2: like a novel because it is a novel, but it's
Speaker 2: true amazing.
Speaker 1: So basically, what you're saying is your true gift is
Speaker 1: the gift of storytelling.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I believe so.
Speaker 1: And unlike me, you stick to the facts.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean I.
Speaker 1: Never let the facts get in the way of a
Speaker 1: good story, not on purpose. It's not like I'm a
Speaker 1: purposeful liar. I just can't remember anything anymore.
Speaker 2: Well, believe me, I cannot remember everything either. I do
Speaker 2: not have photographic memory. I had to look things up
Speaker 2: over and over and over to make sure these things
Speaker 2: are right. Because the last thing I wanted was somebody say, Martin,
Speaker 2: what are you saying this for? That never happened. I
Speaker 2: couldn't have that happen. So we checked, rechecked, triple checked
Speaker 2: so many of these things. One thing that happened was
Speaker 2: Puchita was in Hiroshima as in a big conference where
Speaker 2: they're preparing to defend the Japan from the onslaught of
Speaker 2: the American invasion, which they believe was imminent. So while
Speaker 2: he's at this meeting in Hiroshima, he gets a phone
Speaker 2: call to go to another airbase. They said that we
Speaker 2: want to talk to you now, we need you now.
Speaker 2: He leaves. The next day the bombas dropped on Hiroshima.
Speaker 2: His hotel is vaporized, ninety thousand people killed. The next
Speaker 2: day he comes back to Hiroshima on a search party
Speaker 2: to find out what happened, what kind of bomb it was,
Speaker 2: and he spent three days walking around in radioactive rubble.
Speaker 2: A month later, almost everybody on a search party is
Speaker 2: dying of radiation sickness, but nothing happened to him, and
Speaker 2: he started thinking, why am I not dead? What is
Speaker 2: happening in my life? And that's when he started coming
Speaker 2: across the story of Jake Dechezer and Peggy Kovell, and
Speaker 2: these plotlines come together, and what Peggy did, without giving
Speaker 2: away the story, is even though her parents are being
Speaker 2: mistreated by the Japanese in the Philippines, she looked for
Speaker 2: a way to love her enemies and she volunteered ultimately
Speaker 2: at a pow hospital in Utah where she was waiting
Speaker 2: on Japanese soldiers who were injured amputees mostly, and they
Speaker 2: described her as an angel who just did nothing but
Speaker 2: good things for her and they want to know, why
Speaker 2: are you treating us so nicely? They thought maybe someone
Speaker 2: in Japan had done something really wonderful for her. When
Speaker 2: she found out that her parents had been persecuted by
Speaker 2: the Japanese, they were horrified. And this story got back
Speaker 2: to Fuchiita, and he asked the guy who told him,
Speaker 2: why wouldn't she take revenge? Why would you love your enemies?
Speaker 2: That doesn't make any sense to me. And later he
Speaker 2: asked the question where does this love come from? He
Speaker 2: wasn't seeking God, he wasn't seeking religion. He was just
Speaker 2: seeking what's true. And that's really what led to the
Speaker 2: change of his life, which is quite beautiful. If you
Speaker 2: seek the truth and you're going to live according to it,
Speaker 2: your life will change. And that's what happened to Fucheta,
Speaker 2: and that's what will happen to you as well.
Speaker 1: Amen. Amen. T Martin Bennett, the author of the fascinating
Speaker 1: book Wounded Tiger, has been spending time here with us today.
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Speaker 1: here with us today. Thank you for saying yes, saying yes.
Speaker 1: I cannot tell you how many times I've had a
Speaker 1: thought in my mind I should do this, I should
Speaker 1: do that, but then life gets in the way, you know,
Speaker 1: and kids and responsibilities and my job and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Thank you for saying yes to that voice that said,
Speaker 1: do this, write this, make this, you know, bring this
Speaker 1: story to life.
Speaker 2: Well, it's my pleasure to encourage people. I want people
Speaker 2: to see how dark and hopeless the situation was for
Speaker 2: many of the people in the story, and yet God
Speaker 2: found a way to show them a way to live
Speaker 2: that actually is a very happy ending. The end of
Speaker 2: this book has a series of happy endings that are
Speaker 2: just mind blowing. How in the world could this possibly happen?
Speaker 2: But it does, and I want people to be encouraged
Speaker 2: by that. It's a story of hope. It's a story
Speaker 2: of inspiration.
Speaker 1: What if somehow we could wave a magic wand and
Speaker 1: open people's eyes to the power of love.
Speaker 2: Well, the thing about Wounded Tiger is that it's authentic.
Speaker 2: It's not contrived, and in a world full of, like
Speaker 2: I said, hatred, killing and death, it's a story of
Speaker 2: transformation from that lifestyle of hatred, killing, in death to love,
Speaker 2: life and peace. How it happens and watching it play
Speaker 2: out in front of our eyes is both fascinating and encouraging.
Speaker 2: There is an answer and the world needs to know it.
Speaker 2: So I tell people, don't take my word for it.
Speaker 2: You can read the first chapters free at woundtiger dot
Speaker 2: com and see what you think on your own.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good idea, so wounded dot com folks
Speaker 1: should go there, get a little taste like a you
Speaker 1: know how in the ice cream parlor do they just
Speaker 1: give you that teeny tiny little spoon and you're like,
Speaker 1: what that's not I can't even really taste that. But
Speaker 1: you can read the first first few pages.
Speaker 2: But of course, to be honest, I have ulterior motives here.
Speaker 2: I have had many people tell me right to my
Speaker 2: face Martin, I don't read books that are six hundred
Speaker 2: pages long. I said, you don't need to read the book,
Speaker 2: just read ten pages and then I'll get the email
Speaker 2: two days later, Martin. I was at page one forty
Speaker 2: when I remember it, I was only going to read
Speaker 2: ten pages. And I've seen it happen over and over.
Speaker 2: It just does. It pulls you in and it's a
Speaker 2: fun ride. It's an interesting ride. You're going to learn
Speaker 2: something and you're going to be challenged to be a
Speaker 2: better person.
Speaker 1: Do people really get intimidated by the number of pages?
Speaker 2: Yes, mostly men. To be honest, I've had many men
Speaker 2: when I'll pull the book out of my bag and
Speaker 2: sit on table, they go, WHOA, I do not read
Speaker 2: fat books, and they just plat on tell me. But
Speaker 2: I had a woman, a podcaster, said Martin, I'm going
Speaker 2: to do the interview with you, but there's no way
Speaker 2: I'm going to read this book. I said, you don't
Speaker 2: need to read it, just flipped through a couple places,
Speaker 2: just read a little bit here and there. You'd look fine.
Speaker 2: She said, great, but I'm not reading the book. Two
Speaker 2: days before the interview, she said, Martin, I sat down
Speaker 2: on Saturday morning and started reading this book. And I
Speaker 2: read and read and read until the sun went down.
Speaker 2: I finished the book in one session. This is the
Speaker 2: most incredible story I've ever read.
Speaker 1: Well, because I just got the opportunity to interview you,
Speaker 1: I would have probably done the same thing, except my
Speaker 1: podcast producer just came to me and said, can you
Speaker 1: make yourself available? This sounds fascinating, and so here I am.
Speaker 2: Well. It's a great way to start twenty twenty four
Speaker 2: with hope.
Speaker 1: Amen. We need that. We need all the hope, all
Speaker 1: the light, all the love we can pour into the world.
Speaker 1: So keep writing, keep sharing, and I'll keep trying to
Speaker 1: do the same thing on the radio.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. We're working on getting the film made. Delilah.
Speaker 2: Thank you for encouraging so many people over the years,
Speaker 2: and I pray that you will do the same into
Speaker 2: the future. Amen.
Speaker 1: Amen, God bless you.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 1: Wounded Tiger takes you on a gripping journey of history.
Speaker 1: T Martin Bennett's attention to detail and inclusion of over
Speaker 1: three hundred historic photographs and documents immers's readers in the story,
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