Only Forward

«An age shall come after many years when the ocean will lose
The chain of things and a huge land lie revealed.»
The old book in Seville, the old lines lines
Are followed by this one: «My father fulfilled this prophecy. When October 12th
in the year of our Lord 1492.»
Today is October 12, 1942. This is our birthday. This broadcast is part of the
celebration it comes to you in the principal American
Languages. And you’re hearing it in every country of our hemisphere.
Happy birthday everybody!
The great, and the anonymous, the conquistadors, the priests, the prospectors,
the traders, the trappers, the Bandeirantes, the leatherstockings.
Every man of them will move forward valiantly into any part of the uncharted
darkness of our new world is a discoverer of America
Maybe the unknown can only be explored by men of no imagination;
but I think you need imagination to make a try. It can’t have been
pleasant—that first crossing. Somebody once said that adventure is an attitude
taken toward discomfort. Imagine the first day of that first Atlantic adventure