This book is not about grit.
It is not about powering through pain.
It is not about motivational survival slogans.
Warrior’s Note: Everyone Has an Alligator Story is about surrender.
Written in the aftermath of a near-fatal encounter, this book unfolds as a seven-month journal addressed to the future self. It captures what trauma feels like in real time—before memory softens the edges, before meaning is neatly packaged. The writing refuses polish. It stays present. Honest. Awake.
The story is told in we and us, not I and me, because trauma is never carried alone. This choice is intentional. It reflects how identity fractures and reforms under pressure, and how survival is rarely an individual act.
Through lived experience, reflection, and embodied faith, the narrative explores trauma from multiple angles: fear, stillness, pain, surrender, gratitude, and ultimately clarity. The goal is not explanation—it is permission. Permission to remember. Permission to speak. Permission to see personal trauma without comparison or minimization.
A defining moment hovers above the pages: drone footage capturing a man swimming head-on toward the place where he nearly died. Not as spectacle. As witness. A living declaration that survival does not come from control, but from release.
This book was written so nothing essential would be forgotten.
It now exists so others might finally speak.
This is not a manual.
It is a light left on in the tunnel.
And if you have an alligator story of your own—this book meets you there.
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Vendeur : World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, Etats-Unis
Paperback. Etat : Good. Warrior's Note. Everyone Has an Alligator Story (EHAAS) is a book about Juan Carlos La Verde (JC) collision encounter with a massive alligator in the middle of a lake and it is only through the grace of God and his life preparation that he was able to survive. A true one in 10,000,000 chance of survival, JC's story, documented by video evidence, his escape from the jaws of an alligator, is one for the ages. A United States Air Force Pararescumen, paramedic, world class endurance athlete, and most importantly a man of great faith, JC presents a story that is a blend of poetic recollections and eloquence encapsulating vivid descriptions and pictures to illustrate the incident and his recovery journey. Warrior's Note: EHAAS, is a book three plus years in the making as JC started writing the "Warrior's Note" early in his recovery. Through his words the reader has a chance to not only walk in his shoes, but to sense the experience of his very swim strokes that culminated in helping him literally escape the jaws of death. Severely injured which he describes in detail with the physical and emotional healing journey, JC discusses in the latter half of this book how he is taking this as a true second chance to help others in this world. It's the actions that he is taking to help young fathers through ministry focused on understanding their own challenges in life and ways to overcome them to be better fathers over the long-term that are a testament to his second chance mission. TESTIMONIALS "This book doesn't just tell a story. It teaches you how to stand tall in your own story, how to be truly resilient." Benjamin Burgher, Triathlete USAF Combat Veteran "An absolute must read for your reading bucket list. B - P - C." Deborah Aubrey-Peyron Author of Miraculous Interventions Book Series "J.C.'s dramatic, descriptive and highly detailed writings of his post-trauma process are like a lighthouse pointing the way out of pain to a new beginning!" Mike Holm, Pastor Calvary Chapel Tampa. N° de réf. du vendeur 00109666681
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Vendeur : World of Books Inc, Montgomery, IL, Etats-Unis
Paperback. Etat : Good. Warrior's Note. Everyone Has an Alligator Story (EHAAS) is a book about Juan Carlos La Verde (JC) collision encounter with a massive alligator in the middle of a lake and it is only through the grace of God and his life preparation that he was able to survive. A true one in 10,000,000 chance of survival, JC's story, documented by video evidence, his escape from the jaws of an alligator, is one for the ages. A United States Air Force Pararescumen, paramedic, world class endurance athlete, and most importantly a man of great faith, JC presents a story that is a blend of poetic recollections and eloquence encapsulating vivid descriptions and pictures to illustrate the incident and his recovery journey. Warrior's Note: EHAAS, is a book three plus years in the making as JC started writing the "Warrior's Note" early in his recovery. Through his words the reader has a chance to not only walk in his shoes, but to sense the experience of his very swim strokes that culminated in helping him literally escape the jaws of death. Severely injured which he describes in detail with the physical and emotional healing journey, JC discusses in the latter half of this book how he is taking this as a true second chance to help others in this world. It's the actions that he is taking to help young fathers through ministry focused on understanding their own challenges in life and ways to overcome them to be better fathers over the long-term that are a testament to his second chance mission. TESTIMONIALS "This book doesn't just tell a story. It teaches you how to stand tall in your own story, how to be truly resilient." Benjamin Burgher, Triathlete USAF Combat Veteran "An absolute must read for your reading bucket list. B - P - C." Deborah Aubrey-Peyron Author of Miraculous Interventions Book Series "J.C.'s dramatic, descriptive and highly detailed writings of his post-trauma process are like a lighthouse pointing the way out of pain to a new beginning!" Mike Holm, Pastor Calvary Chapel Tampa. N° de réf. du vendeur CIN1966181043G
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