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DAY 41(Thursday, 29 May 2014)LETTER TO MY SONSI wrote this letter to my sons during the hunger strike I did while in pre-trial detention, just incase I did not make it. But make it I did.My dearest Ben and Oliver,This is your dad speaking to you.Know that I love you more than anything else on this earth and that the reason I am sacrificingmy life is so you can live in freedom and dignity and that in the distant future your children willknow the same happiness.Once in a while, history calls upon us men to rise to the occasion and do what no one dares. Fewhave that kind of courage, for the greater the act of heroism the more likely it will not berecognized by one’s contemporaries. But future generations, having survived the mistakes oftheir predecessors, will.You will grow up without your father but your last name will resound in history and give you thestrength , honor and dignity I cannot pass on to you directly by being there for you to love and toguide you through life.I was called upon in the Palau Islands by God or Destiny to live on love alone and a few monthslater at Iguaçu Falls in Brazil to be that drop of water that changes the course of the river thatmankind represents. I did what I was called to do and opened a new path. It is now up to othersto do their part.I write to you what may be my last words from a prison cell where I am held in solitaryconfinement and where bruised and battered I sleep on a cold concrete slab without pillow ormattress. I have not eaten since I was arrested on July 14, just as I was to see you in the park.Despite the circumstances, I fill fight until I die or come home to you where I belong in body,soul and spirit.Do not feel sorry for your old dad. That is only for the weak. Feel proud of me and drawstrength from the strength that courses through my veins and through my words, as I drawstrength from the boundless love I feel for you.Here in this cell life is reduced to the bare minimum and there is beauty and purity to this state ofbeing. The only thing you have is the joy within you, the only entertainment your memories, andthe only compass your own thoughts. If you have neither joy, nor memories nor thoughts thatare of any worth than you live in hell, but if you are full of joy, memories and thoughts you livecloser to heaven than at most other times in your life.212