Be Happy is a touching memoir that pulls the reader in from the first to last page. Horace Jacobs tells his painful, fascinating, and finally joyful story of growing up and discovering the power of God's Word and prayer. Living a life of poverty, the boy found the means to go forward, despite a drunken and brutal father and the early death of his beloved mother. Life in the slums held little hope or comfort for him. Then, as a teenager, he found work on a farm owned by a family who took him in and cared for him. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Horace joined the U.S. Navy and found an...