There is a generation that views the loss of Wi-Fi as a calamity, a cold latte worthy of scorn, and a five-day work week as a curious relic from a distant past. Sad but true, they have no sense of real life challenges that have been confronted and mastered by those whose spirit, ethics, and indomitable strength remain unimaginable to the rest of us.

One of the most courageous Americans was Helen Keller. Blind and deaf since infancy due to scarlet fever, she angrily lived in a world of total silence and darkness until her parents received a visiting angel, Anne Sullivan. Visually impaired herself, she was able to break through to Helen by teaching her sign language that eventually revealed Helen's intellect, curiosity, and humanity.

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We just wanted to share with everyone Emma Lazarus's poem, "The New Colossus," celebrated on the Statue of Liberty:

The New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"