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    Motivational Stories: The Story





    Of Winston Churchill




    By Jeremiah Say


























      Winston Churchill  Army, a career that  pointed  First  Lord
    stuttered as a child.  seemed to suit him.  of  the  Admiralty

    His father, who had  By  1911,  he  had  and                    became         a
    wanted  his  son  to  become  First  Lord  member of the War
    become a barrister,  of  the  Admiralty,  Cabinet.  Early  in

    thought  Churchill  pretty               amazing  the  war,  Neville
    was           retarded  isn’t  it?  He  filled  Chamberlain,  the

    because  he  did  that position for the  British  prime  min-
    poorly  in  school,  next  four  years.  In  ister,                resigned.
    most  of  the  time  1915, during World  Winston  was  the

    finishing  near  the  War  I,  Churchill  o v e r w h e l m i n g
    bottom of his class.  helped engineer an  choice  to  replace

    Churchill failed the  unsuccessful battle,  Neville. He accept-
    sixth  grade,  took  referred  to  as  the  ed  the  position
    three  full  terms  Gallipoli  Disaster.  and  helped    lead

    to  get  to  the  next  Although              some  England to victory.
    class in mathemat- argued  that  the  Despite Churchill’s

    ics, and was reject- fault for the failure  success,  he  was
    ed by both Oxford  lay  with  the  tacti- heavily defeated in
    and      Cambridge.  cal  commanders,  his  bid  for  prime

    Churchill’s  father  Churchill  took  the  minister  in  1945.
    advised him to pur- blame  and  respon- Many  historians

    sue a career in the  sibility,               hence  speculate  that  his
    Army.  Following  received  a  demo- success  as  a  war-
    his father’s advised,  tion.  Not  too  long  time  leader  led

    he  then  applied  after,  he  gave  a  people  to  believe
    to  join  the  Royal  remark to the pub- he  could  not  per-

    Military  College  lisher  of  the  News  form as well during
    at  Sandhurst,  the  of the World, “I am  a time of peace.
    British  equivalent  finished.  It’s  over  Nonetheless,                      6

    to  West  Point  in  for me.”                          years later, Winston
    the  United  States,  That              comment  again became prime

    but  he  failed  the  proved  to  be  far  minister, a position
    entrance  examina- from  the  truth.  that he held until he
    tion,  twice!  After  Churchill  held  a  resigned  in  1955.                     in Literature.              successful          war  Say              [http://

    intense tutoring and  variety of positions  When  not  serving                      From  failure  and  leaders  in  history  JeremiahSay.com]
    a lot of cramming,  during  the  1920s,  in the government,                       rejection  to  prime  (War World II).                    A r t i c l e

    Churchill squeaked  and he demonstrat- Winston  spent  his                        minister  of  the  Check  out  my  Source:                              http://
    by  the  third  time  ed  his  real  value  time writing books                    United  Kingdom.  blog                for     more  EzineArticles.com/
    round.                      as  a  command- on  English  and                      Winston  Churchill  health and wellness  expert/Jeremiah_

      After        gradua- er.  When  World  world  history,  for                     is  widely  regarded  tips  Happy  Living  Say/1242087
    tion,       Churchill  War  II  broke  out,  which  he  won  the                  as one of the most  With                Jeremiah

    entered  the  British  Churchill was reap- 1953  Nobel  Prize                                                                                             Page 23
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