Something has been brought to my attention just yesterday that I thought I should share with my friends on the Ford GT Forum. I received a call yesterday asking me to Pray for a very special friend of our Friend Carroll Shelby who is in need of our Prayers. Here's the story. Leah Evangeline Smith was Carroll Shelby's inspiration to start the Children's Foundation in 1991. She had a very special relationship with Mr. Shelby and spoke at his Memorial Service one year ago last month. She had a heart transplant at 11 days old. She is now in complete heart failure and needs a second heart. She is currently on a baloon punp and in the Cardiac Medical Care Unit at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana. She needs our prayer and support. I met Leah at Carroll's Memorial Service and fell in love with her. We visited quite a while and I told a story of Carroll helping me get a 5 year old boy in Kingsville, Texas a transplant heart in Dallas in the late 90's. Leah told me Carroll had helped hundreds of children the same way and would never talk about it either. Carroll would never tell me or talk about his help, but would only say "It needed to be done and I got it handled". That was the way he was about his Foundation and money. This boy is 15 years old and doing well. He was a great man with deep compassion for others and a dear close friend. He loved the Ford GT Forum members as you who met him at Rally 2 in New Port, Beach.Leah has a facebook page that you can follow her progress on called TEAM LEAH. You will have to search for it. Her's is the one that has her in a red dress dancing as the photo. Please "LIKE" her page, follow her story and please pray for her as she is a Special Person somewhat linked to all of us as Friends Of Carroll Shelby. I'm not one to push a cause and I hope I'm not stepping on any Forum rules. If I am I'm sorry. Tomy Hamon
