Viva Stories: The Wounded Warrior
February 22, 2021
“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.” – Theodore Roosevelt Sunday, I popped into Viva to grab a drink. In walked an older gentleman, wearing a “Wounded Warrior” hat. His eyes, radiating both pain and pride, told me he had stories to tell, so I got...
We called him “Sausage,” and boy was he a spicy little brat (wurst pun ever)! He was the grumpiest lizard we ever had (and we’ve had a lot of lizards in the Walker household)! This is how his story began…