By George Matthew Adams

Nearly a century ago, in a rural cabin in southern Indiana, a mother lay dying. She knew that her last hour was at hand and asked for her ten-year-old boy. She pressed him close to her and whispered: "Be somebody, Abe!"

The mother was Nancy Hanks. And the boy did become somebody. For he was Abraham Lincoln and he became not only President of the United States but, eventually, one of the most deeply loved figures in all history.

Throughout the years of struggle, and later when honors came fast to him, Lincoln often remarked that those last words of his "angel mother" came to lead him on.

It matters very little who you are or what you do, so long as you decide to be somebody and carry through your determination with honor.

The main thing is to be somebody.

"The world will little note nor long remember what we say here," said this immortal Lincoln at Gettysburg, "but it can never forget what they DID here."

What we say is easily forgotten. But what we do remains as a monument to what we were.

Just do something worth while.

Just be somebody.

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