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Sun 30 May, 2004 04:32 pm
THE MEASURE OF ONE'S COURAGE IS DETERMINED BY THE NUMBER OF THOSE WHO MUST FOLLOW THEIR LEAD - Michael H. Rogers, Baltimore Maryland....
The history behind this quote, which although I am not a self-promotionist is meaningful enough to me to spread the meaning of this message. I was looking at some Coast Guard photos of the Normandy invasion June 6, 1944 and a co-worker saw what was on my computer screen and asked what I was doing. I told her that these were photos taken during the invasion of Europe and I couldn't stop looking at one picture in particular taken by the driver of a landing craft moments after the men he brought to shore had jumped into the water and were headed towards the well-fortified beach. The photo is dark, gray and the men in the water are only dark wet figures laden with heavy equipment. One man is looking back over his shoulder still going forward but obviously has a look of, not fear, but uncertainy on his face. In the distance is only the long expanses of the beach ahead - dark and threatening...and the dead bodies of the men frm the first wave can be seen scattered on the beach where the ocean meets the land. My friend asked rhetorically....what kind of courage did these men have to do something like that? I answered though, saying that their courage can only be measured by the millions of men who had to follow the lead of these first brave men who landed that day. And so became the first version of my quote above. I sent it to the D-Day museum and they hopefully will be posting it on a wall somewhere. I hope the photo and my quote moves others as it has moved me. Mike Rogers
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