Never Say Die.

   

                                       :: Never Say Die::

                                   ::Power Of Engineers::

                    ::She Showed Real Love For her husband::

                       ::This is not the dream of Crazy men's::

                                     ::He is man of words::

This real life story is about the determination and courage of two engineers, father and son.The Father wants to connect New York city with Long Island.

In 1883 a creative engineer John Roebling was inspired by an idea to build a spectacular bridge connecting New York with the Long Island. However, bridge building experts throughout the world thouught that this was an impossible feat and told Roebling to forget the idea. It just could not be done. It was not practical . It had never been done before.

Roebling could not ignore the vision of the bridge he had in his mind. He thought about it all time and he knew deep in his heart that it could be done. He just had to share the dream with someone else. After much discussion and persuasion he managed to convince his son Washington, a budding engineer, that the bridge in fact could be built.

Working together for the first time, the father and son developed concepts of how it could be accomplished and how the obsticles could be overcome. With great excitement and inspiration and the headlines of a wild challenge before them, they hired crew and began to build their dream bridge.
The project started well but when it was only few months underway a tragic accident on the site took the life of John Roebling. Washington was injured and left with a certain amount of brain damage, resulted in him not being able to walk, talk or even more.

"We told them so."
"Crazy men and their crazy dreams!"
"It's foolish to chase wild vision."

Everyone had a negetive comment to make and felt that the project should be scrapped since Roebling were the only ones who knew how the bridge could be built. In spite of his handicap, Washington was never discouraged and still had a burning desire to complete the bridge and his mind was never discouraged and still had a burning desire to complete the bridge and his mind was still as sharp as ever.

He tried to inspire and pass on his enthusiasm to some of his friends but they were too daunted by the task. As he lay on his bed in his hospital room, with the sunlight streaming through the windows, a gentle breeze blew the flimsy white curtains apart and he was able to see the sky and the tops of the trees outside for just a moment.

It seemed that there was  a message for him not to give up. Suddenly an idea hit him. All he could do was move one finger and he decided to make the best use of it.By moving his he slowly developed a code of communication with his wife.

He touched his wife's arm with that finger indicating to her that he wanted her to call the engineer again. The he used the same method of tapping her arm to tell the engineers what to do. It seemed foolish what to do. It seemed foolish but the project was under way agin.

For 13 years Washington tapped out his instructions with his finger on his wife's arm until the bridge was finally completed. Today the spectacular Brooklyn Bridge stands in all its glory as tribute to the triumph of one man's indomitables spirit and his determination not to be defeated by circumstances. It is also a tribute to the engineers and their team work and to their faith in a man who was considered mad by half the world. It stands too as a tangible monuments to the love and devotion of his wife for 13 years patiently decoded the messages of her husband and told the engineers what to do.Perhaps this is one of the best example of a never-say-die attitude that overcome a terrible physical handicap and achieves an impossible goal.