Congratulations to Ms. Gill Hicks of London on her wedding today (hattip: OxBlog). When the Luftwaffe was bombing London, defiant Londoners taught the world a lesson about fortitude. That British fortitude lives on as exemplified by Ms. Hicks, who lost 75 % of her blood when the Tube was bombed on July 7.
As noted in yesterday’s Times Online,
She was determined to stay alive, she said, despite a nagging voice in her head telling her to go to sleep.
“I looked around the carriage and I made a very firm decision that ‘this is not where I die. This is not the end for me’.”
Thus, she calmly tore her scarf in two to make a turnicate for each mangled leg, which were both amputated below the knee once she arrived at the hospital.
Thank you Ms. Hicks for a powerful lesson on the will to live. And thank you England for your qualities in the face of adversity.
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Wow! Amazing woman.
They exhibit the same fortitude when they try and get those Mormon missionaries to “bugger off”.
Lol, Don. Personal experiences here?
Yes, personal experience and “bugger off” was one of the more polite terms I heard when tracting.