History of the Week: Okinawa, War of 1812, N.Greene, Waterloo, J.Rainey, ‘House Divided,’ Council of Ephesus, Vlad &More
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This week was the anniversary of Winston Churchill’s historic WWII speech where he said, “Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.”’ Every great man—indeed, every good man—tries to bear himself so that he or his children can look back with pride instead of with shame on his actions. This week marked the anniversary of many heroic and many hideous actions, but we must remember them all, that we can resolve to avoid the villainies of the past, learn from the heroisms, and bear ourselves so that the men of the future can look back and say, “This was their finest hour.”
History of the Week: Okinawa, War of 1812, N.Greene, Waterloo, J.Rainey, ‘House Divided,’ Council of Ephesus, Vlad &More
History of the Week: Okinawa, War of 1812…
History of the Week: Okinawa, War of 1812, N.Greene, Waterloo, J.Rainey, ‘House Divided,’ Council of Ephesus, Vlad &More
This week was the anniversary of Winston Churchill’s historic WWII speech where he said, “Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.”’ Every great man—indeed, every good man—tries to bear himself so that he or his children can look back with pride instead of with shame on his actions. This week marked the anniversary of many heroic and many hideous actions, but we must remember them all, that we can resolve to avoid the villainies of the past, learn from the heroisms, and bear ourselves so that the men of the future can look back and say, “This was their finest hour.”