Sept 18/61 Dag Hammarskjöld, Sec Gen of the UN, died in the Congo when his plane crashed (shot down?). The rare global leader who found in public service religious vocation. In his posthumous work, Markings, “the story of my negotiations with God and myself,” he left clues about
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...his inner life: “The best and most wonderful thing that can happen to you in this life is that you should be silent and let God work and speak.” “Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.”
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Just ordered the book... need some inner inspiration and hope for my soul in these dark days.
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I still have a copy of Markings that my high school volleyball coach gave me at graduation in 1977. A treasure.
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Katangese separatists ordered a Belgian mercenary pilot, Jan van Risseghem, to shoot down the secretary-general's plane. Van Risseghem was mentioned as a possible suspect in a cable sent by the U.S. ambassador to Congo just hours after the crash (but not declassified until 2014).
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