![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So begins Homer "Sonny" Hickam Jr.'s extraordinary memoir of life in Coalwood, West Virginia - a hard-scrabble little mining company town where the only things that mattered were coal mining and high school football and where the future was regarded with more fear than hope. The other boys discovered their own truths when we built our rockets, but those were mine." And I didn't know that the enthalpy decrease in a converging passage could be transformed into jet kinetic energy if a divergent passage was added. I didn't know that if a girl broke your heart, another girl, virtuous at least in spirit, could mend it on the same night. "Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn't know my home town was at war with itself over its children, and that my parents were locked in a kind of bloodless combat over how my brother and I would live our lives. ![]()
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