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“The third excellence is courage, the perfect will, which no terrors can shake, which is attracted by frowns or threats or hostile armies, nay, needs these to awake and fan its reserved energies into a pure flame, and is never quite itself until the hazard is extreme; then it is serene and fertile, and all its powers play well.”
“The pure article, courage with eyes, courage with conduct, self-possession at the cannon’s mouth, cheerfulness in lonely adherence to the right, is the endowment of elevated characters. I need not show how much it is esteemed, for the people give it the first rank. They forgive everything to it. What an ado we make through two thousand years about Thermopylæ and Salamis! What a memory of Poitiers and Crécy, and Bunker Hill, and Washington’s endurance!”
“There are degrees of courage, and each step upward makes us acquainted with a higher virtue.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A cursed day that changed not only the face of America but also that of the whole world.
God rest in peace the souls of those innocent who perished that day!
It was a shock with snowballing effects for sure, Carmen. The ones most closely involved deserve to be remembered.