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again. She suffered damage to her brain and has been confined to a wheelchair since. Her father said, “If she wanted to continue in this struggle for life, then 1 would do everything I could to give her a valuable life.”
Waldman has gone far beyond his call of duty. He made Serena’s life valuable; doing so motivating and inspiring others with handicaps.
He did this by constructing a hot air balloon designed from the ground up to accommodate wheelchairs. He named the balloon “Serena’s Song,” for his daughter, and made his intentions clear.
“1 want to take Serena’s Song to every city and every town that has passengers who need this kind of lift. 1 won’t be satisfied until everyone has their chance,” he said. Serena’s Song is the only aircraft of its kind in the world, a very special and very expensive project.
Due to the excessive costs for construction, purchase of equipment and shipping the balloon and basket, Waldman originally went more than $30,000 in debt. When asked about his private funding, he told an Iowa TV station, “God, we hope that somebody will find us. We’re not ready to give up.”
As if by magic, his plea was heard and answered in 1994 by California husband and wife team Robert and Beverly Lewis, the owners of the “other” Serena’s Song, the horse. It seems that destiny had a hand in the flaming of their magnificent Rahy filly when
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