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我来到大街上,很惊奇地发现队列里没有和我一同前来的向导和朋友。原来,格瓦西奥是想和我一起回去,但加西亚将军因为南部海岸的战争还需要他,就没有同意。我只得向将军表达了我对格瓦西奥他们的感激之情。我与将军以纯粹拉丁式的拥抱作了告别,骑上马,和他的3名军官一起向北疾驰。
我终于把信交给了加西亚将军!
 
军人的荣耀
 
给加西亚送信的过程充满了危险,返回的行程与之相比也同样重要,也同样凶险。
来的时候,要是没有途中那么多古巴人为我引路,保护我,我肯定到达不了目的地。返程中,战争已经爆发,西班牙军队在四处巡逻,在每一个海岸,在每一个海湾,在每一条船上都可能出现。他们的大炮随时都会轰击可疑目标,而我一旦被发现就意味着死亡,因为我必然会被当作一个敌后出现的间谍来对待。咆哮的大海使我认识到:成功的背后是连续不断的、一次接着一次的艰苦航程。
但是我们信心十足,必须成功。当然我们还须努力,否则的话我的使命就会功亏一篑。这可是关系到战争的胜败呀!
一路上,同伴们和我都提心吊胆,保持着最大的警觉,不敢稍有疏忽。我们穿过古巴,向北进发,很快到达了西班牙人控制的考托河口处,那里至少有西班牙的炮艇,对面还构筑了坚固的岸堡,那里的大炮威胁着河口。
我们颇有些猜疑,难道西班牙人已经知道我们到了这里?还是谨慎为好。我想,不会是有人已经猜到一支身负重任的小分队要在戒备森严的地方行动。当我们又准备启程时,暴风雨降临,一时间浪涛汹涌,我们不敢贸然下水,但是,等在这里同样危险,因为时值满月,一旦云雾散去,我们就会被发现。怎么办?
我只有一个念头:我们要把握自己的命运。
晚上11点我们决定启航。此时正是乌云满天,遮住了月光,掩护我们出发。大家各就各位,四个人划桨,一个人掌舵,奋力向前。总算慢慢远离了敌人的要塞。当时我的感觉简直无法形容,好像随时都会响起追击我们的炮声和机关枪的哒哒声。我们的小船在浪涛中跌宕起伏,像水中的鸡蛋壳被抛来抛去,几次都险些翻船,全靠经验丰富的水手们,我们总算又逃过一劫,冲出了险境。
渐渐地,疲劳和单调的航行使得大家都快睡着了。时间不长,突然一个巨浪打过来,搞得满船都是水,船也差点被打翻,这下子谁都不能睡了。赶紧一下一下的往外淘水。漫长的黑夜总算过去了,太阳露出了海面,正在这时,有人喊了一声:“先生,快看呀!”我们一下子紧张起来,是不是遭遇了西班牙战舰?那我们就全完了。我还没反应过来,只听我的同伴一起用西班牙语喊起来,难道真的是西班牙舰队?
啊,老天保佑,总算不是,那是桑普顿将军的战舰,正破浪向东,攻击敌人的舰队。
我们都长舒了一口气。
直到第二天早晨,5月7日,我们紧绷的神经才最后松弛下来,但后面的路也并非一帆风顺,几经周折,到5月12日,我们才到达科维斯特。我们没有逗留。乘晚上的火车赶到塔姆帕,再换乘一列火车开往华盛顿。
我们终于在预定的时间到达了目的地。不敢有丝毫耽搁,我随即向战争统帅部秘书罗素?阿耳戈汇报了情况。他听了我的讲述之后,让我再向米尔斯将军汇报。米尔斯将军接到我的报告后给统帅部写了一封信说:“我建议美国第十九步兵部队的一等中尉安德鲁?罗文晋升为骑兵团上校副官。罗文中尉历经艰险,穿行古巴,完成了‘把信送给加西亚’的艰巨任务,为政府带回了最宝贵的情报,罗文中尉发扬了英雄主义精神,沉着勇敢,他的事迹将成为战争史上光辉的一页。”
返回后,在米尔斯将军的陪同下我参加了一天的内阁会议。会议后我收到了麦金莱总统的贺信,他感谢我把他的愿望传达给了加西亚将军,同时祝贺我圆满完成了自己的使命。贺信中的最后一句话是:“你完成了一项了不起的任务!”
我完成了超出我职责范围的更多的任务——对我来说这是第一次。一个军人的天职就是:“不要问为什么,而是服从命令,然后去完成它。”
我已经把信送给了加西亚。
安德鲁?罗文
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我相信世界上最美好的词就是“自信”
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附录
 
A Message To Garcia
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 and the United States it was very necessary to municate quickly with the leader of the Insurgents。 Garcia was somewhere in the mountain vastness of Cuba…no one knew where。 No mail nor telegraph message could reach him。 The President must secure his cooperation; and quickly。 What to do!
Some one said to the President; “There’s a fellow by the name of Rowan will find Garcia for you; if anybody can。”
Rowan was sent for and given a letter to be delivered to Garcia。 How “the fellow by the name of Rowan” took the letter; sealed it up in an oil…skin pouch; strapped it over his heart; in four days landed by night off the coast of Cuba from an open boat; disappeared into the jungle; and in three weeds came out on the other side of the Island; having traversed a hostile country on foot; and delivered his letter to Garcia…are things I have no special desire now to tell in detail。 The point that I wish to make is this: McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter and did not ask: “Where is he at?”
By the Eternal! There is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college of the land。 It is not book…learning young men need; nor instruction about this and that; but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust; to act promptly; concentrate their energies: do the thing…“Carry a message to Garcia!”
General Garcia is dead now; but there are other Garcias。 No man who has endeavored to carry out an enterprise where many hands were needed; but has been well…nigh appalled at times by the imbecility of the average man…the inability or unwillingness to concentrate on a thing and do it。
Slipshod assistance; foolish inattention; dowdy indiffer…ence; and half…hearted work seem the rule; and no man succeeds; unless by hook or crook or threat he forces or bribes other men to assist him; or mayhap; God in His goodness performs a miracle; and sends him an Angel of Light for an assistant。
You; reader; put this matter to a test: You are sitting now in your office…six clerks are within call。 Summon any one and make this request:” Please look in the encyclopedia and make a brief memorandum for me concerning the life of Correggio。” Will the clerk quietly say;” Yes; sir;” and go do the task?
On your life; he will not。 He will look at you out of a fishy eye and ask one or more of the following questions: Who was he ? Which encyclopedia? Where is the encyclopedia? Was I hired for that? Don’t you mean Bismarck? What’s the matter with Charlie doing it? Is he dead? Is there any hurry? Shan’t I bring you the book and let you look it up yourself? What do you want to know for?
 And I will lay you ten to one that after you have answered the questions; and explained how to find the information; and why you want it; the clerk will go off and get one of the other clerks to help him try to find Garcia…and then e back and tell you there is no such man。 Of course I may lose my bet; but according to the Law of Average; I will not。
Now; if you are wise; you will not bother to explain to your “assistant” that Correggio is indexed under the C’s; not in the K’s; but you will smile very sweetly and say; “Never mind;” and go look it up yourself。 And this incapacity for independent action; this moral stupidity; this infirmity of the will; this unwillingness to cheerfully catc
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