From: "Neil Francis", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>but your remarks about one of this country's greatest hero's
>is pushing it a bit!
Is this blasphemy? Is Nelson a hero because he has a monument in London or
because of what he achieved? Real heros don't need statues or monuments to
help people to remember them - surely. They are eternal for what they leave
behind. So Faraday, Newton, Mozart, Bach, Planck, Voltaire, Lebnitz,
Fermet, Laplace, Lagrange, Maxwell, Gauss, Gandhi, Von Newmann, Euler,
Turing, Pele, Best, Sobers, Green, Babbage, Ampere, Pauli,
Weber............. and yes - John Lennon have no need for statues although
I dare say most of the above will have one somewhere or other.
As someone else has remarked - Nelson was a sailor - I would hardly call
him a hero because of his sailing or militaristic abilities he was mostly
born into. I can't see why he should be worth 15 of anyone else because he
fought battles rather than created music. I'd have though creation of
anything is more heroic than destruction. And of course with the full might
of the barbaric British Naval system behind him and no shortage of poor
souls pressed to work for him the definition of 'hero' becomes somewhat
distorted. It is probably fairer to say it was the men on the decks below
him that were the real heros.
Comparing the likes of John Lennon and Nelson is artificial and, as someone
else remarked again, a monument in Trafalgar Square or anywhere else is
laughable as the only way John Lennon needs to be remembered to the people
he was important to is for them to carry on playing his music. He has, of
course, been hijacked for this latest cause by his silly wife.
Neil Francis
Trowbridge, UK
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