Jack Kerouac
Before Jack Kerouac started writing as a profession, he wrote himself on the “sick list” only 8 days after joining the U.S. Navy in 1942 as a cadet. He was convincing enough for the Navy to discharge him on the grounds of suffering from a schizoid personality.
Jack Kerouac
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Sammy Davis Jr.
When all odds were against him, Sammy Davis Jr. understood how to look past the difficulties and aim for the best. During his stint in a special forces unit in the U.S. Army, he had to deal with a lot of racism. He didn’t let it affect him as he claimed: “My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man’s thinking.”
Sammy Davis Jr.
