Who was the White Mouse?

OK, I admit it, I am a HISTORY NUT.

The average person doesn't know who Nancy Grace Augusta Wake was.  She was born August 30, 1912.

Trained as a nurse, she worked in England as a newspaper reporter before the war. She was able to interview Hitler in 1933. That interview changed her life. She fought in Europe during WWII. During this time the Gestapo killed Henry Fiocca, her first husband. They tortured him until he died, trying to find the location of the WHITE MOUSE. That's what German Intelligence called Nancy Wake. It was said she was a beautiful small woman ... until the fighting started -- at which time she fought like five men.

Nancy spent most of WWII fighting in France. She is said to have saved several thousand Allied solders', plus others', lives through her efforts. Legend has it, she killed a German solider with her bare hands; broke his neck. I guess the Resistance Directorate Special Ops training paid off. Decorated by four countries for heroism, duty and bravery, she was honored with a total of eleven medals.

She remarried after WWII to a British RAF pilot John Forward who died in 1997. Wake went back to Australia for a number of years after the war, then returned to Britain. Nancy died a few weeks ago (August 7, 2011) in a nursing home for old soldiers in Britain. Ninety-eight years old -- almost made it to 99.

If you would like to learn more of the "White Mouse," just check the internet.

The media tells me that heroes are professional athletes and Hip-Hop artists.There are not many heroes left to look up to anymore. I think I found one. If you are looking for one you might consider Nancy THE WHITE MOUSE Wake.

Remember God only gives us a certain number of days. I don't planing on wasting the ones I have left.

Until we talk again.

Mike