Why Courage Matters by John McCain

Author:John McCain
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9781588363329
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2004-04-12T16:00:00+00:00

Blessed is the match consumed

in kindling flame.

Blessed is the flame that burns

in the secret fastness of the heart.

Blessed is the heart with strength to stop

its beating for honor’s sake.

Blessed is the match consumed

in kindling flame.

According to her mother, when Hannah Senesh, a precocious, intelligent, and conscientious child, was sixteen years old, her classmates elected her to an office in her elite Budapest high school’s literary society. Attending her first meeting of the society, Hannah was informed by its older members that being a Jew disqualified her from accepting the office. When a new election was held and one of her friends was elected to replace her, she suffered the injury stoically. When her friend refused the office, Hannah instructed her to “accept it calmly, and don’t think for an instance that I begrudge it to you. Not at all. If you don’t accept it, someone else will. After all, it has nothing to do with whether Hannah Senesh or Maria X is more capable of fulfilling the assignment, but whether the person is a Jew or a Gentile.”

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