"[Leopold 'Bogey' Godfrey-Turner] had a lavish joy in life, an embattled mind, keen wit, sensitive appreciations and a gallant soul...
Uncle Bogey had lost his first-born son in the war...He proved to me that a man may face utter desolation without whimpering. By his fine courage and by his gorgeous humour, which not even grief could crucify, he showed me how a man may know irreparable loss and still inherit the earth.
When I learned to walk again, I returned to London, healed in spirit if not in body, and all because of Uncle Bogey".[26]
—Herbert Marshall recalling the inspiring example of his uncle after the First World War
- Source Wiki on Herbert Marshall
What else could Uncle Bogey do? While he had lost his son, nephew Herbert was alive!
Herbert learnt to walk, returned to the theater and starred in over 10 movies in the 1920s.
I think empathy, or expressions like 'somebody walked in someone's shoes'are inadequate to explain what Uncle Bogey did for Herbert - or the relief Uncle Bogey sought by helping Herbert - but it begins to explain (to me) why in Mingle people share well wishes, 'sensitive appreciations'; although they have never met.., and will never meet.
Edited by
jaish
on Sat 01/29/22 06:24 AM
