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Motty Grunwald, CCC-SLP, BCS-F earned his Masters in Speech-Language pathology at Long Island University in 2003, graduating magna cum laude. He externed at Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, where he worked extensively with patients with voice disorders. He then worked as a speech therapist in several clinic and school settings with children and adults with various speech and language disorders. Eventually, he decided to pursue Board Certification in fluency disorders. He was mentored for four years by Walter Manning, author of the textbook Clinical Decision Making in Fluency Disorders, associate editor of the Journal of Fluency Disorders, and (at the time) associate dean of the University of Memphis. Motty is licensed as a speech-language pathologist in New York and New Jersey. He also holds the Certificate of Clinical Competence in speech-language pathology (awarded by the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association) and he is one of the fewer than one-tenth of one percent of speech therapists in the USA that is also a Board Certified specialist in fluency disorders (awarded by the American Board of Fluency and Fluency Disorders). He currently works at Ezra Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY.

“It was very cold up there and the missions were tiring because they were quite long. They lasted anywhere from five to six-and-a-half hours, and when we got back to the base all we could think of doing was hitting the sack and getting some rest and being prepared for the next day’s mission,” the retired lieutenant colonel said.  Being shot down and captured was not an option. The black Tuskegee Airmen were showing the world bigotry didn’t belong — except down below. On April 1, 1945, hate showed its face once again. “There were seven of us and we were going after targets of opportunity in Austria,” he said of the day his squad got into a dogfight with German fighter pilots. “Three of us got shot down. One was able to make it back to friendly territory before he crash-landed, one was killed outright when he was shot down and the third one, his plane was damaged so badly that he had to bail out,” said Stewart. That pilot was captured and lynched three days later by an angry mob. “The crowd, after being agitated by the SS troops, they broke into the jail and took this downed pilot out and they beat him badly first and then hung him from a lamppost. His name was Walter Manning,” Stewart said. “He was a very dynamic person. He was, I remember, a great swimmer. Lord knows what he would have done had he been able to survive the war.” Stewart — one of the Heroes of a Generation the Herald is chronicling — almost faced the same fate that day over Austria. “I realized (as tracer bullets whizzed by him) somebody was shooting at me. A German fighter plane was on my tail and I thought sure that I had had it,” Stewart said. He dove for the ground, pulling up at the last second as the German fighter on his tail crashed nose-first in a ball of flames. “Somebody was with me. I guess it was God as my co-pilot there because that guy should have had me,” he added. “I was about to give up the ghost.” Stewart lives in Michigan now but once trained in Massachusetts at Westover Air Force base in Chicopee and flew with fellow pilots from all over New England. He has a book coming out next week about his days as a Tuskegee Airman. It’s called “Soaring to Glory.” It’s a fascinating tale of a teenage boy in a segregated America defying the odds and proving himself 30,000 feet above the Earth as the world was at war. “I subdued those feelings that I might have had about racial prejudice and committed to the mission,” he said of escorting bombers. “There were 10 lives on board each of those bombers that we were protecting. So anytime we intercepted an enemy fighter and stopped them from shooting the bomber down, we potentially saved 10 lives, and that was 10 American lives, fellow Americans and I was not thinking about some of the segregation that was going on at the time back in the states.” As the story goes, the men on those bombers quickly came to love seeing the Red Tails pull alongside. “We were like their guardian angels,” Stewart said. Those long missions, he added, were exercises in perseverance — a shared trait of all the Tuskegee Airmen. “It was cold … maybe 50 to 60 degrees below zero. … And you’re trapped in the cockpit and you cannot really move,” Stewart said of his single-seat Mustang. “Sometimes coming back from a mission … I would invert the plane, turn it over on its back then so actually I was hanging by my safety strap. “That was such a relief, to go ahead and hang from the safe strap. It was like somebody rubbing your back,” he said, remembering like it was yesterday. “I couldn’t stay in that position for too long, it was only for a second and then turn the plane back over upright again.” Stewart is retired now from his mechanical engineering job with a pipeline company. He was recently invited back to Austria, where the townsfolk of Linz honored the memory of his fellow Tuskegee Airman. “They wanted to make amends for what had happened, what the civilians had done to Walter Manning, and they were doing a commemoration and setting up a very nice memorial for him,” Stewart said. “It was very inspirational.” His days as a Tuskegee Airman come back to Stewart in a dream, he said. But he’s most proud that he showed the world that patriotism transcends race. The book about his life, Soaring To Glory, is available on Amazon.

Tough Talk Christian Radio with Host Tony Gambone with Special Guest Erica Mbasan and Walter Manning: Erica Mbasan - a missionary in Northern Uganda, and the author of “For the Joy Set Before Us: Insights into the Missionary Journey.” My book was published in late 2014 (under my maiden name Erica Fye). I have been a missionary for 8 1/2 years, and in 2011 I started an NGO and a project called “Africa for God.” Our 501c3 in the US is called Africa4God, Inc. I work with orphans, widows, and people in villages. My primary ministry is discipleship, raising up the local believers to be strong members of their communities and churches. I teach Bible studies, facilitate short term teams, do literacy training, and help with a local orphanage. Walter Manning is a Christian author of seventeen books. He served six years in the United States Air Force, and earned his B.S. & M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston, TX, where he graduated with high honors. His fifty-year career in the high-tech industry spanned engineering, marketing, sales, and program management. Walt retired in 2009, as a senior manager, to write and speak about his faith. Walt’s a member of the National Honor Society, National Engineering Honor Society, and the National Electrical Engineering Honor Society. He is a semi-pro baseball umpire, enjoys music, reading, writing, creativity, tinkering, and keeping current with world events, particularly as they pertain to biblical eschatology.

Welcome to BLITZ RADIO where your hosts AlBarsch, sigepmagicmike and Walter Manning will breakdown all the action in the World League, National Pro League, Casual Pro and even a little bit of Pee Wee Gold! He will also be covering different topics each week that deal directly with the top Pro Leagues as well as having a contest for Reward Points!

Welcome to BLITZ RADIO where your hosts AlBarsch, sigepmagicmike and Walter Manning will breakdown all the action in the World League, National Pro League, Casual Pro and even a little bit of Pee Wee Gold! He will also be covering different topics each week that deal directly with the top Pro Leagues as well as having a contest for Reward Points!