A Miraculous Journey: The Life of Vernon L. Bowlby (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780692297711)

How can it be that an eight year-old, raised in a loving family, during the Great Depression, under conditions that would now be considered primitive would: * Graduate second of a select group of over one hundred soldiers from Army Leadership School? * Graduate near the top of his class at the University of Oregon? * Teach at Oregon State University for ten years? * Form Professional Corporation #1 in Oregon, which is still in existence after forty-four years? * Establish a CPA firm, and as a sole owner in a small town, perform accounting work across the nation? * Counsel clients on how to earn a profit in their businesses which resulted in millions more profit, and with the related income taxes paid? * Counsel with other CPA's across the United States in regard to timber and Christmas tree tax law, without remuneration? * Counsel unknown people, without remuneration, to extricate themselves from situations with the IRS, and other dire financial situations? * Counsel hundreds of college students over ten years, with no expectation of personal return, except for blessings received from spirit? * Write a tax manual on a subject so complicated that no one had ever done it, before or since, that be recognized by the IRS as the best source for information for tree growers? * Become an energy healer, and heal people from many afflictions without remuneration? * Travel across the United States over thirty times to give classes to CPAs and tree grower conventions? * Employ several hundred employees over 29 years, pay thousands of dollars of payroll taxes, and give his employees a twenty-five percent of salary pension contribution, which fully vest in six years? * Build an office building with over 8,000 square feet with two hundred dollars out of pocket? * Become a land developer and real property landlord? * Own a four hundred acre timber and Christmas tree plantation free of debt? * Heal himself in thirty minutes from a destroyed Achilles tendon which the doctors predicted take six to eight months to heal? * Become a founding director in a local bank? * Become a part owner of a radio station? * Visit all fifty states? * Visit over forty countries? * Have two hole-in-ones? * Give away most of the wealth accumulated during his lifetime? * Raise a family, aided by his wife, of three children, who have made significant contributions to mankind, and with grandchildren on the same path? * Write a book to share his life's journey with others?