How do we measure character / Greenland
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On a cold October night in 1994, John F. Kennedy Jr. walked into a small Italian restaurant in Manhattan—and left behind a moment of quiet kindness that would never be forgotten. The restaurant was overflowing. Every table taken.
The kitchen overwhelmed.
The young waitress named Maria Sanchez, working her very first night, was on the verge of tears—confused, terrified of making a mistake, barely holding it together.
John noticed. Instead of demanding a table or special treatment, he quietly pulled the owner, Giovanni Russo, aside and whispered:
“Would you like me to help clear tables until things calm down?”
Giovanni was shocked.
“Mr. Kennedy, you’re a guest. Please, sit. I’ll have a table ready for you.”
But John just smiled, rolled up his sleeves, and said:
“I worked in a restaurant while studying law. I know how scary the first night can be. Let me help.”
For the next 45 minutes, John F. Kennedy Jr. became part of the staff. He cleared plates. Refilled glasses. Wiped tables. He cracked gentle jokes to calm Maria—until her shaking hands finally steadied.
When the rush ended, Giovanni offered him dinner. John politely declined. Instead, he left a $100 tip and a handwritten note:> “To Maria — You’re doing great. And soon it will be easier, I promise.”
Maria framed that note.For the next 25 years, she hung it in every restaurant she managed.In a 2004 interview, she said:
“Mr. Kennedy taught me that true elegance isn’t about where you sit—but about who you’re willing to support when things get hard.”
As John left that night, Giovanni remembers his final words:- “My mother always told me that how you treat people when no one important is watching says everything about who you really are.”
No photos. No headlines. Just a moment of humanity. Because true character isn’t measured by status. It’s measured by service. By quiet kindness. By respect that doesn’t seek applause.
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John F. Kennedy Jr. died on July 16, 1999, in a plane crash off Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, when the single-engine Piper Saratoga he was piloting went down in the Atlantic Ocean, also killing his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette, with all three dying on impact due to the crash. Thick fog likely disoriented Kennedy, who wasn't instrument-rated for flying in such conditions, leading to the fatal crash during his flight to the island.
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The story above shows what a decent human being JFK Jr. he was and through thoughtfulness, kindness and understanding, he helped and guided and everyone was the better for it.
Trump has absolutely not a single good vibe in his entire body, not one, and sees everything to be about him;- his precious ego has to be flattered, spoiled and pampered and if not, he screams and he thrown tantrums.
That is not very presidential. Not a decent human being and unworthy of any attention at all.
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I found this piece below about Greenland fascinating.ating.
“I think Trump doesn’t know the Greenlandic people at all."
(Tillie Martinussen, member of the Greenlandic Parliament)
We don’t place much value on money,
on Kardashian-style lips, or that kind of thing. In Greenland, for that matter, you can’t even own land: you can be granted a plot to build your house on, and you own the house that sits on the land, but not the land itself.
That’s because Greenlanders don’t believe the land belongs to a single person: it belongs to everyone. And the same goes for the sea and the wealth it contains.
That’s why it’s a huge miscalculation to think Greenlanders can be bought with money. We can’t. And even if they told us, ‘$100,000 per person,’ we would never give up free healthcare, we would never give up free education, we would never give up being part of Europe, and we would never give up our sovereignty—which, sooner or later, is our goal anyway.
We don’t want to be rich like Americans. You only have to look at how greedy they are: they even end up shooting their friends or invading their friends out of sheer greed. We know there may be minerals and oil beneath our soil, and that they’re worth far more than any amount of money. But even if there were none, we still wouldn’t let ourselves be bought.
Everyone here knows the history of the Inuit in Alaska and of all native populations, Indigenous peoples, Native Americans. Their lands were taken from them, and they were not treated well in the United States. And we know that Trump largely surrounds himself with people tied to white supremacism.
We are not white, as you can see. And so we know that our rights would probably be taken away.
We also know that, together with Denmark, we’re fine the way we are. As I said before, we have free healthcare and free education: whatever you want to study, you can do so without paying anything, and in fact the government even gives you a scholarship—money while you study. We would never trade any of this: the welfare state, social welfare. We wouldn’t trade it for anything that comes from America.
(…) No matter what has happened in the past between Denmark and Greenland, we’ll sort it out among ourselves. As we are now, things are fine. And if one day we want independence, it has to be Greenlanders who decide, not a superpower exerting pressure from afar.
We know very well that if we became independent tomorrow, he would invade us immediately, because he wouldn’t have problems with either NATO or Europe. That’s why I think he’s making a deeply insulting bet on the idea that Greenlanders are stupid, uneducated people who don’t follow world news. But that’s not true. It’s exactly the opposite.
We’ll be here for hundreds of years after Donald Trump. Even if he invaded us, I think we’d simply wait it out the way you do with bad weather. Everyone here knows that it’s the weather that decides: if a storm comes, we hunker down for a day or two. We could hunker down for a year, for two years, or even for ten or twenty years, and then we’d return to Denmark as soon as Trump and people like him were gone.”
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