"Far and away, the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."- Theodore Roosevelt, Labor Day speech.
Most Americans who survived the Great Depression were deeply scarred, physically and emotionally. This national trauma drove many into despair and self-destruction while many others developed a resiliency (defined by Websters as "an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune and change"). I could not imagine that any adjustment would be "easy" during that time. It seems that the incredible work ethic, entrepreneurial spirit along with his financial aspirations that Mr. Erich developed early in his life provided him with the fortitude-the "mental toughness" that would serve him to survive the next great trial of his life-polio.
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