Sunrise Sunset

Just after the Great Depression, William Maxie Davis Jr., or Buddy, was born into a very poor family in Bladen County, one of North Carolina's poorest rural locales. Buddy's relationship with God and his hardships temper his character and prepare him to face a life of poverty and to envision the American dream.</p><P>Experience Buddy's heartbreaking moments that show some of the problems of undereducated and malnourished individuals, and enjoy lighthearted moments as he explores nature. Buddy's journey takes him from a poor sharecropping farm to the heights of London and the war in Vietnam, from near death of malnutrition as a small child to retirement as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force.</p><P>Despite the odds, Buddy goes on to become an attorney, pledging to help the poor and the elderly. <I>Sunrise, Sunset: A Memoir</I> chronicles Buddy's struggles-and being saved by God's grace-to make his American dream come true.</p>