Excerpt from The LinkSuddenly the big realization comes on. I hurt. I hurt and bleed, but I know that I hurt and bleed. I can feel it. I can feel it because I am alive!How can I be alive? How can I fall four or five hundred feet and be alive? Why didn't the blasted parachute work? What could have happened? Could it be that the slender pine I lay under had broken my fall, and grabbed my parachute cords in her slender flimsy arms, and held me and kept me safe from death? Was it the tree? Or was it luck? Or training? Or God? I wasn't ready, my_ - mind said. I wasn't ready at all! T hen I lay and prayed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.