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Summary: Powerful Reading and Listenning Experience
Review: Gerald Coffee was a POW in North Viet Nam for seven years, most of it spent in a small cell alone, out of visual contact with the other POWs. In this powerful tape, the first thing evident is the love of life and spirit of community heard in his voice. There doesn't appear to be a hint of bitterness or revenge. Instead he tells how he survived and what he learned from the traumatic experience to become a wiser and more generous person since his release in 1973. He advises the listeners to have faith, and learn to rely upon themselves,others, Country and their God. He gives examples of how he was able to survive by practicing what he preaches and encourages all of us to apply the same lessons to our own lives and our own "struggle for survival". Gerald Coffee survived for a reason. The message he gives could be that reason. It is very inspirational and highly recommended.
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Summary: Impressive live recording of a powerful messae
Review: Heard BEYOND SURVIVAL: THE NEXT CHAPTER, written
and narrated by Gerald Coffee, Captain, U.S. Navy (Ret.), who
endured seven long years in a communist prison in North
Vietnam . . . this was a live recording of a speech he has made
throughout the country, in which he tells how he survived and
what lessons he learned from his experience . . . he advises the
listeners to have faith, as well as to learn to rely upon themselves, others, country, and their God . . . doing so will enable us to get through our own "struggles for survival," which only speaking for myself, seem insignificant to what Coffee had to endure . . . my only regret was in not being able to hear Coffee deliver this powerful message in person . . . he seems like he is quote some guy, and I was so impressed by his message that I had to listen to this powerful tape twice . . . in fact, I'm now going to seek out his original book: BEYOND SURVIVAL.
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