Untitled: Act of God/Act of Man

By Dion Green

From incarceration, to a devastating tornado, and to a tragic mass shooting, author Dion Green narrates the story of his life and the challenges he faced. Beginning with his youth and growing up in Springfield, Ohio, he shares his memories and recaps the significant and life-changing events he experienced.

This memoir, Untitled, chronicles how Green and his family faced adversity, how he learned to forgive, and how he kept his faith while living through defeat after defeat.

Offering a personal testimony of resilience and strength, Untitled serves to help and inspire others challenged by life’s trials. It demonstrates the power of a community that rallied and supported Green and his family.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: May 15, 2020
• ISBN: 9781973691280

Dion Green

Dion Green is currently pursuing his MBA from Keller Graduate School. A native of Springfield, Ohio, he lives with his wife and daughter. Green is involved in giving back to several community projects.

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ISBN: 978-1-9736-9127-3 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2020908982

WestBow Press rev. date: 05/15/2020

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CONTENTS

Chapter 1 What Made Me the Man I Am Today

Chapter 2 The Act of God Tornadoes

Chapter 3 The Act of Man Terror

Chapter 4 Coming to Terms That This Was Real

Chapter 5 The Hardest Part in My Life

CHAPTER 1

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WHAT MADE ME THE MAN I AM TODAY

Hello, my name is Dion Green. I am thirty-seven years old, and I have one daughter who is eleven years old. I would like to share with you a brief history of my past and what made me the man I am today.

I was born in the small city of Springfield, Ohio, to my mother, Denise Green, and my father, Derrick Fudge, on August 28, 1982, in a hospital that is no longer in Springfield. At the time, it was called Community Hospital, and my mother worked there for nearly twenty years of my life before retiring.

I was raised in a household with nothing but females: my mother, has three sisters, and Mom’s mother, who passed in December 2017 due to breast cancer. That was a blow that devastated the family because she was the rock of the family and the backbone for all of us.

While growing up, I was always the smallest in the group but the baddest one among my friends. I remember when my friends’ parents would go out of town, and we would take the car and drive around the neighborhood, though we would never go on any main street. I was usually the one driving us around. I can’t even remember how I saw over the steering wheel, but I was the driver and a good one at that.

I and the other kids would go through the J. C. Penney catalogue and look at stereo stuff for a car. We said we would get this when we all came up with the money to buy a car together.

We were typical kids, growing up, being bad, and experiencing life. We went