- Genre:biography & autobiography
- Sub-genre:Military
- Language:English
- Pages:68
- Hardcover ISBN:9798350986297
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Overview
Connelly grew up on the plains of Wyoming without electricity and running water. He taught himself how to read when he was three and graduated from high school at sixteen, valedictorian and class president. From there he went on to become a major general in the USAR, and a panel participant in the Moscow Summit of 1988, that ended The Cold War on May 31, 1988.
But helping to end The Cold War wasn’t enough for Stan. He knew our country had to work harder and do better to bridge the gaps between Whites and POC, men and women, and the haves and the have nots. He was a champion for diversity, opportunity and inclusion, because he always knew a house divided against itself could not stand.
Description
General Connelly was a brilliant, energetic, highly respected military officer that participated in the Moscow Summit of 1988 that ended The Cold War. This book covers his childhood growing up in a homestead on the plains Wyoming without electricity or running water where he witnessed first hand how hard life could be for people without economic opportunity, as well as his later years in Chicago competing against Johnny Weismueler in the Chicago River races before Weismueler left to play Tarzan on the big screen.
After entering West Point during the Depression Connelly had a distinguished military career spanning over 35 years. Retirement was not the end of working for him. It was as if he had more energy than projects so he through himself into two of his passions. Running, and working as a civil rights activist to level the playing field for all players. He ran 22 marathons after co-founding the Detroit Marathon the last one at 78.
Stan Connelly was one of those rare people who left everything he touched better.
