Some people and events are a Splendor in the Distance. Many are legitimately illustrious for they have mingled something good in their cause and others in their ravages. And yet, others have been only injurious. There is an immeasurable distance which separates those who radiate from those who stagnate. We admire people and events on the condition of their disappearance. Their epitaphs read change, but, change is one thing, progress is another. The liberators and the soldiers are hated and despised by the many that have not benefited from the change and loved and remembered by the many that have profited. Those that profit label it progress. It is they that radiate whom God will cause to be remembered and preserve from oblivion. God comes without invitation. God rings the bell. God shall judge all. Click here to open press release “The Measure of Progress: James De Havilland”