Dakota Beacon

Okay, I have introduced you all to my Sunday Specials – great performances of all kinds that I have found and want to share. As I will explain at greater length, it’s part of defending our culture, of taking it back and demonstrating its vitality and its relevance to us every day. So watch for that again tomorrow. Today I am introducing my Saturday feature – People, Places and Things. I will find something special that at least I didn’t know about before and share it.

Sometimes it might be a person who has made a contribution, a place I’ve never been that is interesting and unique, or something – maybe an invention. Maybe something in nature. Just something really interesting.

Today I want to share something I read about Henry V. When he was 16, he participated, as we all know from Shakespeare’s Henry IV, in a pitched battle at Shrewsbury. During the fighting he was struck in the face by an arrow. It should have killed him but it didn't.  He pulled the shaft out but the arrow head was left deep in his face, precariously positioned between his brain and his spinal cord, and he to fight the battle. When it was over the king's army had won the day.  Young Henry was carried to a table where his situation was pondered by the physicians and priests. No one knew what do to – the arrow left in his head would kill him and removing it, deeply embedded in his skull, looked impossible. A doctor was called in from London. He must have been a true genius. With his vision and imagination he solved this seemingly insoluble problem.

Here is the whole story!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Nef1siUus

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