Blessed to Survive - The Thanksgiving Day Massacre

by Patrick W. Knight

Imagine waking from a three-month coma unable to move a single muscle after being shot three months earlier. A week into recovery, while in the ICU, you learn that your wife was also murdered during what has become internationally known as the Thanksgiving Day Massacre. Imagine living, grieving, unable to communicate; and like a baby, needing to learn how to speak, walk, tie your shoes, write . . . everything. For Patrick Knight, he lived it. He survived it through God-given strength. Blessed to Survive takes the reader from the moment Patrick opened his eyes to his full recovery. The book recounts the events that lead up to the massacre and describes the shooting. The stories, analogies, pragmatic tips and strategies along with a bit of humor and tough love, are offered in hopes that this book will help others overcome their adversity and perhaps, like Patrick, move forward, and find happiness again in a new life.

238 pages, Paperback

First published July 4, 2012

Reviews

[Annie · Rating 5 out of 5]

B book for book challenge. Book of the year!!
I have wanted to read since we met Patrick at a Jaycee meeting in Chicago in 2011.

" the most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen".
- Elisabeth Kubler- Ross.

[Jeff Lenhart · Rating 5 out of 5]

A GREAT book, a very sad tragedy, but a book that makes you truly think, and makes you want to live each day as if it were your last! A GREAT inspirational book!