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Article: Fishing for compassion
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 3, 2009
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Hope is expressed in various ways, evidenced in different
situations.
When it comes to an extreme demonstration, Dave Coon of Stone
Lake is in a league of his own.
His exact path to virtue is not recommended; far from it. But he
does advocate the means to his end.
What would you do if you awoke in a hospital bed, body shattered,
and learned you'd likely spend the rest of your life in a
wheelchair?
That's where Coon found himself after a 1993 fall on his job as
an ironworker.
No one would have blamed him for being devastated and depressed.
And Coon certainly dealt with anger and some self-pity amid the
severe physical pain.
But as days passed, he began to latch onto something else, a
sense of ...