Sun, 21 Oct 2007

" ... achieved by dauntless resolution and unconquerable faith."
In our short 2.5 week journey to Thailand, we had the chance to stop and 'pay our respect' to the Wright brothers... for without them, Angela and I would have (probably) never met. I don't know when our love for the air and space started, but it was nice to walk around the patch of land where the first powered flight took place.

As we were walking through the memorial, we found a letter written by one of the brothers (I'll guess Orville.. it's a 50% chance) to one of his supporter. In this letter, he described his love and passion toward the human flight as a 'disease'... Something that he knew it was considered foolish by the world, but yet something that he could not stop thinking about. They raised majority of their support (if not all) by themselves and worked day and night for their passion.

Of course, we all know the 'rest of the story'... and 30 some years later in 1932, a monument was dedicated in their honor that calls their achievement "conceived by genius, achieved by dauntless resolution and unconquerable faith.'

Well, I am no genius, but boy do I want a faith like that :-)

Cheers - Sergio



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