Recently, Charlie Wedemeyer, a football player who was a year behind me at Michigan State University, died at the age of 64.  After his college football career, Charlie took a job as a teacher and football coach at Los Gatos High School in Northern California.  At age 30, he was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease and given one to three years to live.  Despite his disease, he was able to lead Los Gatos High School to seven league championships while posting a record of 78-18-1.  His story was so inspiring that it was chronicled in the PBS documentary One more Season and the CBS movie Quiet Victory. The Charlie Wedemeyer Story.  According to an article in the Detroit News, he truly believed that his life was a tool to help and inspire other people.  His attitude regarding his disease was equally inspiring.  As Charlie put it in 2005, “Pain and suffering are inevitable–we all experience it.  But misery is an option.  We get to make that choice.”