At our annual convention we are given the honor of hearing from some very interesting and inspiring people. In Chicago it was Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, the speaker in San Francisco was Rudy Giuliani(great speech, not political). At our convention in Nashville in 07 we heard from Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind man to climb Mt. Everest(very inspiring). This year in New Orleans we heard the story of Nando Parrado, he is one of the 19 survivors of a 1972 plane wreck in the Andes. There have been books written and movies made about this very moving and inspirational story. Nando lost his sister and mother in the wreck had severe head injuries and after 62 days at the crash site walked for 10 days to get help. He claims he is not a hero, if he is not, I don't know what is. Alive!!
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The deli conventions that I go to always have the top key note speakers. I saw Bill Clinton when I was in Orlando. He had a good message but I wished he had been more personable. He was on task about whatever his agenda was at the time. I will google Nando and check out his story.
Carla, for sure check out his story, it is amazing. He was one of the socker team when the plane went down in the Andes. He lost his mom and sister there, they were one row behind him and from that row back everyone died on impact. 72 days, horrific, they actualy heard on the radio when the search was called off. He spoke to us for an hour and I could have listened to him for a lot longer.
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