quote of the day
(If you've got a good one, leave it for me!)
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. — Henry Clay
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I have a google alert set up on the phrase "courtesy of the heart" because my good friend Ken Breaux wrote a book with that title.
The title comes from a quote from the great German poet, Goethe:
"There is a courtesy of the heart: it is allied with love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior."
This book, "Courtesy of the Heart," describes the belated recovery in July and August 2002 of the mortal remains of Lt. William E. Lewis Jr., an American airman who was shot down on September 11, 1944 over what became East Germany.
An East German nature lover, Herr Adalbert Wolf, discovered the crash site in 1944 and for many years attempted to contact the US government. (I met with him in 1979, but my report to the US military was lost. Wolf's efforts were opposed by the government of the German Democratic Republic and the Soviet military.
The title of Ken's book refers to Wolf's selfless courtesy.
1 comment:
I have a google alert set up on the phrase "courtesy of the heart" because my good friend Ken Breaux wrote a book with that title.
The title comes from a quote from the great German poet, Goethe:
"There is a courtesy of the heart: it is allied with love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior."
This book, "Courtesy of the Heart," describes the belated recovery in July and August 2002 of the mortal remains of Lt. William E. Lewis Jr., an American airman who was shot down on September 11, 1944 over what became East Germany.
An East German nature lover, Herr Adalbert Wolf, discovered the crash site in 1944 and for many years attempted to contact the US government. (I met with him in 1979, but my report to the US military was lost. Wolf's efforts were opposed by the government of the German Democratic Republic and the Soviet military.
The title of Ken's book refers to Wolf's selfless courtesy.
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