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 adventurous life in Brazil. After the war, marriage and fatherhood were accompanied by a devastating struggle against advanced tuberculosis, an illness that isolated him from his wife and child for many years. All this hardship led to a turning point of spiritual awakening that would define the very purpose of his life, point him to his highest calling and mold him into a man of dignity and honor.