Profiles in Courage
Everyone has a different definition for courage.
John F. Kennedy wrote``Profiles in Courage’’in 1956, which profiled the courage of eight U.S. Senators during some trying times. The book won a Pulitzer Prize for the future president of the United States.
Before passing the baton to Katie Couric, Dan Rather signed off on CBS after 24 years with the message of``courage.''
New York Knicks center Willis Reed, certainly defined courage, limping out onto the court (after a thigh injury) during Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden, draining the first two buckets of the decisive game, enough to ignite his team to a 113-99 thriller over the L.A. Lakers.
Curt Schilling of the Red Sox, hung his courage out on his sock, a bloody one at that, during the 2004 American League Championship Series, pitching Game 6 against the Yankees on a damaged ankle, and a big reason why Boston roared back from an 0-3 deficit to clinch the pennant, and win their first World Series in 86 years.
But just when we thought acts of courage had been stretched to their limits-comes this moving story of Claire Markwardt, a runner from Berkshire High School, who despite breaking her leg during a cross country run on November 3rd in Columbus, Ohio, somehow managed to crawl her way to the finish line, an astonishing act of courage, and one which makes Reed and Schilling's feats seem puny in comparison.
-Bill Lucey
billlucey@bellsouth.net
John F. Kennedy wrote``Profiles in Courage’’in 1956, which profiled the courage of eight U.S. Senators during some trying times. The book won a Pulitzer Prize for the future president of the United States.
Before passing the baton to Katie Couric, Dan Rather signed off on CBS after 24 years with the message of``courage.''
New York Knicks center Willis Reed, certainly defined courage, limping out onto the court (after a thigh injury) during Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden, draining the first two buckets of the decisive game, enough to ignite his team to a 113-99 thriller over the L.A. Lakers.
Curt Schilling of the Red Sox, hung his courage out on his sock, a bloody one at that, during the 2004 American League Championship Series, pitching Game 6 against the Yankees on a damaged ankle, and a big reason why Boston roared back from an 0-3 deficit to clinch the pennant, and win their first World Series in 86 years.
But just when we thought acts of courage had been stretched to their limits-comes this moving story of Claire Markwardt, a runner from Berkshire High School, who despite breaking her leg during a cross country run on November 3rd in Columbus, Ohio, somehow managed to crawl her way to the finish line, an astonishing act of courage, and one which makes Reed and Schilling's feats seem puny in comparison.
-Bill Lucey
billlucey@bellsouth.net
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