Chapter 14

Track was going well. I was winning every event I entered. Colleges were sending scouts to observe our meets. I was already getting promises of scholarships if I would attend their university. I even had the coach from the previous year's Olympic team come to speak with me about trying out for the next games which would be held in Munich. I froze with fear. Munich was the scene of the massacre of the Israeli athletes in 1972. I wanted so much to warn him about it, but of course I could not. I made a mental note to send an anonymous letter about a week before the games warning them about it. That was the best I could do.

The rest of the school year was uneventful. After school ended I went back to work full time. I remembered reading about a company called Wal-Mart, which had become the world's largest retailer at the time of my death, had started out as a small company around this time and had gone public sometime in 1970. I had to get as much money together as I could and then watch for the announcement.