Endeavor to Persevere is the story of Ed Farmer, a man rooted in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, whose family history stretches from Confederate captains to a mechanic who turned down Amelia Earhart, and whose own life has touched some of the defining moments of American history — including September 11th. Ed served his country for thirty-three years, rose through law enforcement, earned his law degree, and built a family he is fiercely proud of. Then the system he had served turned on him, and he faced wrongful accusation, professional destruction, and the loss of the woman he loved. What carried him through was what had always carried his family: faith, the bonds of community, and the refusal to quit. A portrait of a life defined not by its hardest chapters, but by what a man does after them.