A Football Hero Who Was an American Hero
By TERENCE P. JEFFREY (Editor’s Note: Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor in chief of CNSnews.com. Creators Syndicate distributed this column. All rights reserved.) + + + As a halfback at Michigan, he ran for 33 touchdowns, threw for 16 more, won the Heisman Trophy, and was the first player picked in the NFL draft. But the hardest hits Tom Harmon ever took were not on a football field. They were in the Army Air Corps during World War II. Harmon came out of a big Catholic family in a small Midwestern town — and was proud of both. “Lou and Rose Harmon were good Catholics, and they were raising their family to have faith in the ‘Big Boss’ upstairs,”…Continue Reading