Jim and Jessie Doyle's Peace Corps experience. Excerpted from an article by JS Online, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel http://www.jsonline.com/news/editorials/oct02/88731.asp The two newlyweds signed up for the Peace Corps, inspired by Jim's hero, JFK, who created the program. They served together in Tunisia and lived most of the time in the desert. Jessica was often sick. "We spent two years malnourished," Doyle recalled. "There were days, very hot days, where we didn't get food. Everybody in the village, including us, had parasites." It was a huge contrast to their privileged upbringing in Madison. The experience may be one of the keys to understanding Doyle's toughness. "Everybody in their lives comes upon something where they don't know if they can do it," Doyle noted. "This was it for me and Jessie. This was our test." |
