Posted on Feb 15, 2016

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During his hike from Mexico to Canada, Andy Davidhazy took a picture of himself every mile along the way. There's definitely a change.

See how man changed during 2,660-mile hike - CNN Video

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Wow! Awesome video - it is amazing how people change when they lose weight and get into shape. It is like their best self emerges. I wish we could see the same kind of change in a person's spirit or soul as they lose their sins or guilt, or trauma or whatever is holding them back from becoming the people that I believe God has called them to be. Now THAT video would be worth paying the price of admission to see. I think some holy people have that kind of X-ray vision to see though us right to our souls ugly or beautiful of probably like myself and most people somewhere in between.

As the Fox said to the Little Prince said, What is essential is invisible to the eye."

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was a Free French Aviator and Patriot who was killed during a WWII Reconnaissance flight in an unarmed Allied P-38Fighter converted to a recon plane prior to the Allied Invasion of Southern France. No positive identification of his remains was ever made. No one really knows exactly how he crashed at sea, whether due to enemy action, or mechanical failure. Prior to WWII, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry had achieved fame in France as an aviator. His literary works – among them The Little Prince, translated into over 250 languages and dialects – posthumously boosted his stature to national hero status in France.[6][7] He earned further widespread recognition with international translations of his other works. His 1939 philosophical memoir Terre des hommes became the name of a major international humanitarian group, and was also used to create the central theme (Terre des hommes—Man and His World) of the most successful world's fair of the 20th century, Expo 67 in Montreal, Canada.[8] from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Saint-Exup%C3%A9ry.

After France fell to the Nazis he came to Canada in 1940 and arrived in the US on the last day of 1940 to try to convince the US to enter WWII on the side of Great Britain and the Free French.

Following a 27-month hiatus in North America, during which he wrote three of his most important works, he joined the Free French Air Force in North Africa, although he was far past the maximum age for such pilots (about 43) and in declining health. He disappeared over the Mediterranean on his last assigned reconnaissance mission in July 1944, and is believed to have died at that time (age 44). A hero of WWII and one of the "Greatest Generation."

While Vichy France (and elsewhere in France) produced a lot of collaborators with the Nazis, I chose to remember the many French Resistance fighters and Free French Warriors like Antoine de Saint-Exupéry who made significant contributions towards the ultimate Allied Victory over the Nazis.