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You Don’t Lose ‘Til You Quit Trying

Lessons on Adversity and Victory from a Vietnam Veteran and Medal of Honor Recipient

Lessons on Adversity and Victory from a Vietnam Veteran and Medal of Honor Recipient

By Sammy Lee Davis and Caroline Lambert
Foreword by Gary Sinise

By Sammy Lee Davis and Caroline Lambert
Foreword by Gary Sinise

By Sammy Lee Davis and Caroline Lambert
Foreword by Gary Sinise

By Sammy Lee Davis and Caroline Lambert
Foreword by Gary Sinise

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    About You Don’t Lose ‘Til You Quit Trying

    The inspiring true life story of Vietnam veteran, Medal of Honor recipient and veteran’s advocate Sammy Lee Davis.
     
    On November 18th, 1967, Private First Class Davis’s artillery unit was hit by a massive enemy offensive. At twenty-one years old, he resolved to face the onslaught and prepared to die. Soon he would have a perforated kidney, crushed ribs, a broken vertebra, his flesh ripped by beehive darts, a bullet in his thigh, and burns all over his body.
     
    Ignoring his injuries, he manned a two-ton Howitzer by himself, crossed a canal under heavy fire to rescue three wounded American soldiers, and kept fighting until the enemy retreated. His heroism that day earned him a Congressional Medal of Honor—the ceremony footage of which ended up being used in the movie Forrest Gump.
     
    You Don’t Lose ’Til You Quit Trying chronicles how his childhood in the American Heartland prepared him for the worst night of his life—and how that night set off a lifetime battling against debilitating injuries, the effects of Agent Orange and an America that was turning on its veterans.
     
    But he also battled for his fellow veterans, speaking on their behalf for forty years to help heal the wounds and memorialize the brotherhood that war could forge. Here, readers will learn of Sammy Davis’s extraordinary life—the courage, the pain, and the triumph.

    About You Don’t Lose ‘Til You Quit Trying

    The inspiring true life story of Vietnam veteran, Medal of Honor recipient and veteran’s advocate Sammy Lee Davis.
     
    On November 18th, 1967, Private First Class Davis’s artillery unit was hit by a massive enemy offensive. At twenty-one years old, he resolved to face the onslaught and prepared to die. Soon he would have a perforated kidney, crushed ribs, a broken vertebra, his flesh ripped by beehive darts, a bullet in his thigh, and burns all over his body.
     
    Ignoring his injuries, he manned a two-ton Howitzer by himself, crossed a canal under heavy fire to rescue three wounded American soldiers, and kept fighting until the enemy retreated. His heroism that day earned him a Congressional Medal of Honor—the ceremony footage of which ended up being used in the movie Forrest Gump.
     
    You Don’t Lose ’Til You Quit Trying chronicles how his childhood in the American Heartland prepared him for the worst night of his life—and how that night set off a lifetime battling against debilitating injuries, the effects of Agent Orange and an America that was turning on its veterans.
     
    But he also battled for his fellow veterans, speaking on their behalf for forty years to help heal the wounds and memorialize the brotherhood that war could forge. Here, readers will learn of Sammy Davis’s extraordinary life—the courage, the pain, and the triumph.

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    Category: Military History | Biography & Memoir

    Hardcover | $27.00
    Published by Dutton Caliber
    May 03, 2016 | 304 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9780425283035

    Category: Military History | Biography & Memoir

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    Published by Dutton Caliber
    May 03, 2016 | 288 Pages | ISBN 9780698408029

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    Praise

     “Sammy Davis’s exploits may sound like a movie script, but Sammy is the real deal.”—Jack Jacobs, Colonel, U.S. Army (Retired)
     
    “Sammy is an amazing man of great character and courage, with a generous kind heart and a resilient spirit.”—Gary Sinise, Actor, Musician and Philanthropist

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