“My cause will emerge from the trenches stronger than it ever was. Under the obvious battle waging, there is an invisible battle for the freedom of man.” “I don’t give a damn about semi-radicals.” – Helen Keller Helen Keller, who died forty-one years ago on 1st June 1968, is to most Americans a folk hero. Rendered deaf/blind at nineteen months through what was probably scarlet fever, at the age of seven she broke through the darkness and learned to communicate thanks to the help of Anne Sullivan, her teacher. The “wa-wa-water” moment is as iconic to American schoolchildren as George Washington chopping down the cherry tree, thanks to its dramatisation in The Miracle Worker and the countless storybooks used in schools to teach and inspire the value of fortitude. Read more... ...