There are many miraculous people on this planet. Some of these people have had miraculous experiences, some have achieved miraculous successes, and some people remind us how miraculous our lives truly are. Every now and then someone comes along who shows us that miracles are really possible. This is what a mentally handicapped African American boy from Anderson, South Carolina was put on this Earth to do. The word "miraculous" describes virtually the entire life of James Robert "Radio" Kennedy. He was born in 1947 into a small family in South Carolina and suffered from a severe hereditary mental handicap. Both James' late father Robert Kennedy and his younger brother, George Allan "Cool Rock" Kennedy, suffered from the same condition. Radio could not read, write or speak, making it impossible to play and learn like other children. When James was young, he pushed a shopping cart around Anderson, North Carolina, and listened to a small radio. The town accepted James, but didn't spend much time trying to get to know him. Even though James had a pretty quiet life, he was in for quite the roller coaster ride. That journey began when she met a man in the fall of 1964. Coach Harold Jones was an assistant varsity football coach at T.L. Hanna High School in Anderson, North Carolina. One day he saw a young man imitating the signals he gave to the boys on the field and invited the boy by offering him drinks and sweets. This boy was James and at the time he couldn't read, write or speak. It became obvious to Coach Jones that James was mentally handicapped and invited him to participate in more football practices. When the football team saw how obsessed James was with his little radio, they gave him the nickname that would end up... middle of paper... alive today. Every living person has the capacity to love. It is the gift we are given to make this world a better place. Unfortunately, many people do not use this love to its full potential, and this leads to people in less fortunate situations suffering. However, this is not the type of person Radio is. Love has always been the most important part of Radio's roller coaster life, and even if it will never reach the mental capacity of an average person, its capacity to love will always remain much higher. Works Cited http://www.radioandcoachjones.com/ OurStory.html http://www.anderson5.net//site/default.aspx?PageID=2573 http://espn.go.com/page2/s/merron /031105.html http://www.chasingthefrog. com/reelfaces/radio.php http://si.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1009232/index.htm http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316465/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=oS4-kUlQOqI