The article below appeared at theepochtimes.com on September 4, 2019.
Winston Churchill was a self-confessed blubberer.
Biographer William Manchester tells us “no man wept more easily” than Churchill. Tears trickled from his eyes at the slightest provocation: a patriotic song, the bravery of Londoners during the Blitz, the death of a pet. Manchester tells us that Churchill even wept a river of tears watching “Never Take No for an Answer,” a hokey movie about a little boy whose donkey was dying. When the prime minister told the British people he had nothing to offer but “blood, toil, tears, and sweat,” he meant those tears literally.
I myself am a closet crier. When my eyes begin to leak, I prefer they spill in private. My children and I used to watch “It’s A Wonderful Life” during the Christmas season. Just before the scene where Jimmy Stewart finally explodes at all the frustrations and burdens he carries from life, I would excuse myself from the television and move to the kitchen to make popcorn, where my watering eyes would remain undetected. My wife and I often suffered hard times, and that scene hit home.
Winston Churchill was a self-confessed blubberer.
Biographer William Manchester tells us “no man wept more easily” than Churchill. Tears trickled from his eyes at the slightest provocation: a patriotic song, the bravery of Londoners during the Blitz, the death of a pet. Manchester tells us that Churchill even wept a river of tears watching “Never Take No for an Answer,” a hokey movie about a little boy whose donkey was dying. When the prime minister told the British people he had nothing to offer but “blood, toil, tears, and sweat,” he meant those tears literally.
I myself am a closet crier. When my eyes begin to leak, I prefer they spill in private. My children and I used to watch “It’s A Wonderful Life” during the Christmas season. Just before the scene where Jimmy Stewart finally explodes at all the frustrations and burdens he carries from life, I would excuse myself from the television and move to the kitchen to make popcorn, where my watering eyes would remain undetected. My wife and I often suffered hard times, and that scene hit home.