AND we wish you all a happy and successful week as yet another month hiccups to a close.
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WE’LL dive straight into Quiz land; we’ve a few outstanding Quizzers to address. Firstly the Cheshire quiz; David Wissink gave us the outline of Lord Cheshire’s life and a number of others filed correct entries. Among them: Max White from Brisbane – greetings Max – and Col Shephard from Yamba NSW.
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COL and David accessed a similar information source but for those who want more links, here’s the e-mail contact: http://www.leonard-cheshire.org/?lid=20 and http://www. ryder-cheshire.org/who_we_are.htm. He adds that the PNG Cheshire Home was named after Group Capt Lord Cheshire of Woodhall, VC OM DSO DFC (1917-1992).
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THEN came a top response and a few striking comments from regular Quizzer Benzamin Zairo. We’ll let Benz do the talking: “I tell you, it’s a rare species of human walking on the Earth who will divert all his attention to a cause which is impossible to achieve during his era. Not to mention gaining nothing profitable out of it.”
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“IN Leonard Cheshire’s case, it was the love and concern he extended to others. His life showed that he believed all of us are created equal by providing the means to making sure disabled people have every possible opportunity in their lives.”
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BENZAMIN adds: “Read just one clause of what the Cheshire Home charter outlines.” Here’s the extract: “That each person, whatever his or her disability, is a uniquely valuable individual and that disabled people should have the personal freedom to pursue their aspirations and take their own place in the world.”
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OUR correspondent added “it’s amazing that through the beliefs of people like Cheshire, we now have Paralympics, a para code of ethics in many work places and disabled people are not seen in terms of their physical disability but rather their brains, talents, influence and wisdom.”
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FINALLY, Benz says of Cheshire: “This was his calling – what is ours?” BZ, thanks for the thoughtful entry – and Quizzers such as Rob and Marj Parer at Aitape, Ms Devjani Chaudhuri in Canada, Zyz down there in Adelaide or Steve Anda at Pangtel should tune in tomorrow …
– Dee Nesenolis