By Rob Basso on
3/28/2011 10:49 AM
Lee Hayes is an 88 year old African American that was one of the 996 black men that comprised the Tuskegee airmen during World War II. His entire life was a fight; a fight for his life in the air, a fight for his country in his heart and a fight to be treated fairly after he risked everything protecting the ideals of a nation that refused to support him when his flying days were over. It is heartening to see that he is not a bitter man, but rather a determined one that has the strength of his conviction and the fortitude of a war hero.
Every entrepreneur fights their own daily battle. We have our own enemy fighters to dodge in the marketplace; skeptics and naysayers that try to keep us from realizing our potential, competitors that disparage because they can't compete with our ability and stamina, and sometimes clashing with our elected officials that don't head our warnings and pleads of fair treatment and proper taxation...