After major stroke, John Jackson Jr. sets goal to return to Coliseum to watch his son, John III, play for USC
(LA Times Dodgers)

The doctors told John Jackson Jr. and his family that his upcoming surgery had been honed in the crucible of war. If a soldier´s brain was wounded in battle, they would open his skull and remove a slice to relieve pressure. That piece of cranium would then be inserted into the stomach, preserved...