4 min
Angela Madsen; "Spirit of the Sea" Music Video Lunch With Legends
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Angela Madsen was a true superhero. She grew up on a farm in Central Ohio in the 1960's. She was the youngest child in her family, and the only girl, besides her mother. Needless to say, she had to grow up tough and fast! Her father was a military veteran, and so were some of her brothers. Angela enlisted in the Marines, where she was stationed at the now closed El Toro Marine Base in Irvine, California. That is where Angela fell in love with the ocean, through surfing. Angela was also a world class athlete, and at six foot three inches, she a forward on the USMC Division 1 Women's Basketball team. An opponent fell on her lower back during a game, which lead to a failed disk replacement surgery, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. That surgery lead to her being dishonorably discharged and eventually homeless, until a veteran's group took her in, where she discovered the sport of rowing. Her team missed medaling in the 2008 Beijing Paralympics. She switched her oars to ocean rowing, where she set nine Guiness Book of World Record records for ocean rowing. On July 18, 2014, Angela Madsen and Tara Remington became the first women to row from Long Beach, CA to Honolulu, HI. While attempting the same row solo, Angela died while untangling an anchor line, 1300 miles from Long Beach and, ironically, Honolulu. She told me back in a 2014 interview that if she had a choice of where she could die, it would be in the middle of the ocean. This music video is a small tribute to a bigger than life person, who was, and still is, my inspiration, along with many others, including her wife, Debra Bogen. My dear friend, John Matthew, was so inspired by Angela's story, he wrote and recorded this song for her.
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Angela Madsen was a true superhero. She grew up on a farm in Central Ohio in the 1960's. She was the youngest child in her family, and the only girl, besides her mother. Needless to say, she had to grow up tough and fast! Her father was a military veteran, and so were some of her brothers. Angela enlisted in the Marines, where she was stationed at the now closed El Toro Marine Base in Irvine, California. That is where Angela fell in love with the ocean, through surfing. Angela was also a world class athlete, and at six foot three inches, she a forward on the USMC Division 1 Women's Basketball team. An opponent fell on her lower back during a game, which lead to a failed disk replacement surgery, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. That surgery lead to her being dishonorably discharged and eventually homeless, until a veteran's group took her in, where she discovered the sport of rowing. Her team missed medaling in the 2008 Beijing Paralympics. She switched her oars to ocean rowing, where she set nine Guiness Book of World Record records for ocean rowing. On July 18, 2014, Angela Madsen and Tara Remington became the first women to row from Long Beach, CA to Honolulu, HI. While attempting the same row solo, Angela died while untangling an anchor line, 1300 miles from Long Beach and, ironically, Honolulu. She told me back in a 2014 interview that if she had a choice of where she could die, it would be in the middle of the ocean. This music video is a small tribute to a bigger than life person, who was, and still is, my inspiration, along with many others, including her wife, Debra Bogen. My dear friend, John Matthew, was so inspired by Angela's story, he wrote and recorded this song for her.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lunch-with-legends/message
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