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Michigan's Austin Hatch

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  1. Germ

    Germ Legendary Woodsman

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    Austins story is incredible tragic, you can look up the Austin Hatch story and watch it before this video.

    The short version is he lost his mom and sibling in the first air plane crash and his Dad and step mom in the second. He lost his ability to walk, talk and play baseball. He fought back and graduated from Michigan(which kept his scholarship for him)

    He married Abbey Cole, a volley ball player from Michigan, with all the hate, bad and BS in the world, give yourself ten minutes of peer joy

     
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    dnoodles Legendary Woodsman

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    I remember the stories of the plane crashes. Nice to see he was able to keep on keepin' on and make a good life for himself.
     
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    Before the accident I actually played aau basketball against him im from the same area. Great guy and definatly tragic have to go through something like that not once but twice.
     
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    What a great story.

    If we can just ignore the news media and look around us...…. life really is good, very good.
     
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