One public television program changed a young man's life forever
Six-year-old Sam McNeal and his family visited the Clark Bridge in Alton after the first grader watched the 1997 Nova episode about the challenges and triumphs of building the bridge.
“That program really turned me around [in school] and really gave me motivation for what I wanted to do with my life.”
Today, 25 years later, Sam is a U.S. Army Captain who just returned from a humanitarian mission in the Middle East.
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