True survivors surround us, though they may wear their uniforms only at funerals and in Veterans Day parades, and may God help us never to forget the dangers and horrors they endured in serving us. Most of us, if we're alert, don't even have to turn on the television to observe survivors in action. Some of them live in our homes, or next door, or in the nursing home down the street. They're people who, despite chronic ailments and persistent pain, manage to make it through each day . Facing an unexpected change of employment can be a survival challenge of epic proportions.
Parenthood is another arena in which real-life survivors proliferate.
Then, too, are those parents who have survived their own children, a feat that can be comprehended only by other members of that fraternity who have endured the unspeakable agony of having buried their own children. And, while few of the people I mention will ever be as famous as members of CBS's Okagor, Barramundi, and Kucha tribes, most of them faced tougher odds for a much greater length of time . They are the real survivors. The series starts Sunday, April 8 at 10 a.m. At Talawanda High School.