Every once in a while, something happens that catches the eye of even the most unassuming person. While this feat might not be great at first, over a period of time, people begin to realize how amazing this accomplishment was. Take the example of Willy Jackson.
Willy was an excellent football player at his high school in Tom Rivers, New Jersey. He led his team to the state championship two years in a row. Willy had received a full scholarship to the college of Michigan to play football. Everything was going great for Willy. Suddenly, out of nowhere, Willie's life to a drastic change.
One night Willy was coming home from a graduation party, and was almost home, when he was struck head on by a drunk driver who had swerved in to Willie's lane. As soon as Willy was hit, he was knocked out, but that was only the beginning of his problems. Willie's right leg was pinned against the dash of the car so bad, that he had very little leg remaining. The doctors were forced to amputate from the knee down.
"How am I ever going to play football with one leg?" He would often ponder.
"God does everything for a reason," was the only response that Willie's mother, Jennifer could give him. She knew how hard Willy had worked to where he was. She also knew that if Willy couldn't play football, he would probably lose his scholarship.
You see, money was tight in the Jackson family. Willie's dad had died when Willy was only 7 of cancer, and Mrs. Jackson worked 12 hours at the hospital as a nurse, just to support her 3 children. Mrs. Jackson knew that there would be no possible way that she could send Willy to Michigan without the financial support that she would lose. Then a miracle came to the Jackson family, in the form of Doctor Stephen Burke.
Doctor Burke was head of the prosthetics unit at Toms River Samaritan Hospital. Doctor Burke had heard of W
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