Author’s victory over inner demons is an inspiring redemption story

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If you are lucky, every once in a while, you come across a book which grabs you by the lapels and either shakes the fear of God into you or shakes repressed memories out of your mind to remind you first, how blessed you are, and second, not to forget the lessons life pounded into you. 

Recently, while watching “Fox & Friends,” I came across just such a book. I watched Brian Kilmeade interview author Tim Murtaugh about going from riding the bench in a drunk tank in jail to riding aboard Air Force One as director of communications for the Trump 2020 presidential campaign. Murtaugh spoke a line which blasted some repressed memories back to the forefront of my mind. Those words being: “I have two little boys, ages 5 and 7, and they have never seen their father take a drink, and I am very proud of that.” 

I literally stopped what I was doing, got the book – “Swing Hard in Case You Hit It” – and read it in one sitting. Murtaugh’s story spoke to me so deeply because I was the polar opposite when it came to seeing my dad take

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