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Friday, October 24, 2003
Let's Celebrate!
This world is a world that celebrates “firsts.” We celebrate people’s accomplishments when they are the first to accomplish something special. If we don’t have a particular celebration for people in a timely manner, then they are celebrated at a later time when society finally recognizes that their accomplishment provided a great benefit to mankind.Think of the following people; Charles Lindbergh, Li Qinglong, Jackie Robinson, Dr. Mary E. Walker, Rosa Parks, Mark Spitz, and Roger Bannister. You know some of these people. Roger Bannister was the first person to run the sub-four minute mile. Dr. Mary E. Walker the only woman of the Civil War to have been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Mark Spitz was the first man to win seven gold medals in the Olympics. With a little research you can find out what benefits to society the others on the list have provided.
There is someone else I’d like to add to the list. Kirk Jones. You may have heard about Kirk Jones. He is the young man who was the first person, according to Canadian authorities, to plunge himself over Niagara Falls without any protective gear and not only lived to tell about it, he emerged unharmed. He is now going to face trial and subjected to a $10,000 fine. Now that’s not what I call a celebration for someone who has accomplished a “first.”
We need to look at what he’s done in another light. He could be the inspiration to car manufacturers. Maybe we’ve had this wrong all along. With as many injuries as we’ve had with air bags, maybe we need to think about water bags.
Maybe Mr. Jones is a frustrated cliff diver. He could be the inspiration for a new Olympic sport. Niagara Falls diving. Although it would be pretty hard to move the Niagara Falls from country to country, with four years in between the Olympics, we can work on that.
We also need to recognize his contributions to medical science. We know the fragility of the human body. We could learn how he walked away from his trip down the falls and help prevent future injury to the human body.
Or perhaps he is just doing research for the largest water park in the world which could be another first.
Instead of putting Kirk Jones on trial and making him fork over a huge fine, lets celebrate the fact that he was on the forefront of protecting the human species. If not now, lets celebrate later.
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