Children will love learning about Nelson Mandela's benevolence during truth and reconciliation in South Africa and the grit of Audie Murphy in World War II. These are stories to which every child should be acquainted.

We need heroes. We need examples of what right looks like, where we can see a principle put into action and then observe the results. The farmers law is immutable and eternally true.

"You reap what you sow."

What are the consequences of a life lived with audacity, integrity, and thankfulness? We can look to Patton, Regulus, and Hellen Keller and find out. What is the outcome if we persevere, and live nobly, with zeal? Ed Coan, George Washington, and Amelia Earhart show us.

They say, you sow a thought; you reap an action. You sow an action; you reap a habit. You sow a habit; you reap your character. You sow your character; you reap a legacy. This book strives to help us all reap a legacy worth reading about, a legacy of virtue and hope.