segunda-feira, dezembro 12, 2011
One is humbled
"In the summer of 1941, Flight Sergeant James Allen Ward was awarded a Victoria Cross for clambering on to the wing of his Wellington bomber and - while flying 13,000 feet above the Zuider Zee - extinguishing a fire in the starboard engine [...]
Churchill summed the shy, swash-buckling New Zealander to Number 10 Downing Street to congratulate him [...]
When the fearless, daredevil airman - tongue-tied in the presence of the great man - found himself completely unable to field even the simplest of questions, Churchill tried something different.
'You must feel very humble and awkward in my presence', he began.
'Yes, sir', stammered Ward. 'I do'.
'Then you can imagine', said Churchill, 'how humble and awkward I feel in yours".
Flipnopsis, Kevin Dutton
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Churchill summed the shy, swash-buckling New Zealander to Number 10 Downing Street to congratulate him [...]
When the fearless, daredevil airman - tongue-tied in the presence of the great man - found himself completely unable to field even the simplest of questions, Churchill tried something different.
'You must feel very humble and awkward in my presence', he began.
'Yes, sir', stammered Ward. 'I do'.
'Then you can imagine', said Churchill, 'how humble and awkward I feel in yours".
Flipnopsis, Kevin Dutton
