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“A message to Garcia.” This phrase has had special meaning for multiple millions of people all over the world. It has become synonymous with certain noble qualities of character.“A Message to Garcia” is the title of an article written on February 22, 1899, and subsequently translated into almost all written languages. The author was Elbert Hubbard, the famous speaker, writer and publisher who died in 1915 on board the famous ship Lusitania when it was sunk by a German torpedo.Hubbard hurriedly wrote the article in one evening for The Fra, one of two magazines that he published. No one was more surprised than he at the immense popularity of what he called “this literary trifle.” By 1913, over 40 million copies had been published, which, at that time, was more than any literary venture had ever attained in the lifetime of an author. It has been reprinted in many formats—article, pamphlet, booklet, etc.Dependability and dedication to fulfill whatever task or responsibility a person is assigned to fulfill are valuable qualities of character.A true human interest story with an extraordinary achievement inspired Hubbard to write about the scarcity of and high demand for certain valuable qualities of character. Those qualities can be summed up as dependability and dedication to fulfill whatever task or responsibility a person is assigned to fulfill.
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Notes about A Message to Garcia, 1936, directed by George Marshall, with Wallace Beery, Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, available from Turner Classic Movies skip navigation TCM. 'A Message To Garcia'. By Elbert Hubbard 1 In all this Cuban business there is one man stands out on the horizon of my memory like Mars at perihelion. When war broke out between Spain & the United States, it was very necessary to communicate quickly with the leader of the Insurgents. Garcia was somewhere in the mountain vastness. Access a free summary of Message to Garcia, by Elbert Hubbard and 20000 other business, leadership and nonfiction books on getAbstract.
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The “mission impossible” accomplished by a young lieutenant in the United States Army, Andrew Summers Rowan, was the inspiration for the article.When the Spanish-American War broke out in 1898, U.S. President McKinley knew he needed to quickly secure the cooperation of General Garcia, the leader of the revolutionary forces in Cuba. The President needed to send a message to General Garcia, but Garcia was somewhere among the mountainous jungles of Cuba—no one knew where. A man made of the right stuff was needed for the difficult and dangerous task of staying alive long enough to find Garcia and deliver the message.The chief of the Bureau of Military Intelligence proposed Lieutenant Rowan. He said, “Rowan will find Garcia for you, if anybody can.” McKinley sent him at once on the mission, alone and unguarded.
When Rowan landed on the island of Cuba in secret, Cuban patriots met him and furnished him with native guides. After overcoming numerous obstacles, he finally reached Garcia, and incredibly, he made it back safely to the United States.Happily, the trip involved many fortuitous circumstances. It seems God’s blessings were on this mission.
But that doesn’t diminish the heroism of Rowan. Don Hooser is a minister and writer for the publications of United Church of God. He and his wife Elsie live in McKinney TX, a suburb of Dallas.
He was born in Dallas and grew up mostly in east Texas. Elsie is from Detroit, Michigan. They have three grown children, Amy, Randy, and Danny.
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Hooser graduated in 1963 from Southern Methodist University with a degree in mechanical engineering, and graduated in 1966 from Ambassador College, Big Sandy. Don and Elsie married two days after Don’s graduation.