By the time Herman I Neuman was only twenty years old, he had to endure: Diphtheria ● Whooping Cough ● Bone-rotting Ear Infection ● World War II ● Years of Near-Starvation ● Years of Homelessness ● Years of judicial injustice and bare-buttocks floggings ● School Failure ● Extreme Culture Shock and Social Isolation ● Years of Hard Labor and Slavery. Herman became a great paradox because he never became bitter and hateful but received many blessings from his traumas. Strangely, he did not become what is commonly accepted to be the most likely result of growing up in an exploded family and being tortured and exploited: a rapist, a wife beater or an angry, violent criminal. He became the exact opposite. Benjamin Franklin said: "To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune...." This wisdom proved to be very true for Herman and that made him, as someone said, " an unusual man." For example, after his new wife and he graduated from college together, they saved enough to travel around the world for six months. They have now been married over forty years. Also, because God has blessed him in so many ways, Herman feels compelled to help people that are innocently suffering. Herman's satirical, blunt-truth memoir, "Heroes from the Attic: A Gripping True Story of Triumph," reads like bizarre fiction and includes a chapter about their low-budget travel adventures.