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<p><i><font color="#000000">Mark Giammalvo specializes in driveability
diagnostics </font><font color="#000000">at his family business,
Sam Giammalvo's Auto Sales & Service, Inc. in New</font>
<font color="#000000">Bedford, MA. </font> </i>
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over 20 years, is an ASE Master Technician and Parts Specialist.
He also holds the ASE L1 certification, and has an
associates degree in business</font> <font color="#000000">management.
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Mark is also a writer for Motor Age Magazine and is the past secretary
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<p><small><i><font color="#000000">(Printed in the Journal of The Alliance
of Automotive Service Providers, AASP) </font></i></small></p>
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<i><small>(I wish to again thank all the customers that have expressed
appreciation for my recent articles. It has proven to be a
conduit for me to voice and share my personal thoughts on automotive and
other issues). </small></i> </p>
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<p>Like all of you, I to will never forget September 11, 2001. I was
walking out into the main driveway when I was told of the first plane crash.
Since that time I have been glued to the daily news broadcasts. Almost
two weeks have past and I realize that I must begin to work back towards
my normal routine. As I write this from inside my home I can see our flag
dancing lightly in the evening breeze outside the front window. I have always
flown the American flag in the summer months but it sure seems to have a
more prominent meaning now. I don't think this country has ever seen a greater
display of American flags. One has to wonder what the real reason is for
these attacks. Is it the sacred ground we are claimed to have violated? Is
it the commands of another world dictator being carried out like history
has shown in the past? Could it be that others are envious of what a wonderful
and successful country our forefathers have established and of which we now
enjoy? After all, freedom is a very powerful thing. I recently was motivated
to again read the Declaration of Independence. It has been a while since I
read this in school but the first line of the second paragraph is still as
powerful as it was over 200 years ago: </p>
<p><i> "...We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness..." </i>
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<p>When that scroll was unrolled and read to the King you can bet your
boots that he was not very happy. Perhaps this notion still upsets some other
people throughout the globe. You might say these attacks on our country could
be a Penalty of Leadership. Penalty of Leadership, you ask? The Penalty of
Leadership is the title of a Cadillac advertisement that appeared in the
Saturday Evening Post, on January 2, 1915. (For those of you that have ever
owned a Cadillac, it has been in the beginning of their owners manuals for
years). It is a very powerful writing that was written for Cadillac by Theodore
F. MacManus. To me, in some sense, this writing reflects how life can be
full of people that want to tear down and beat at the walls of success. The
advertisement follows: <br>
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<b>Penalty of Leadership. </b> <br>
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"<i>In every field of endeavor, he that is first must perpetually
live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in
a man or a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In
art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are
always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce
denial and detraction. When a man's work becomes a standard for the whole
world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his
work be merely mediocre, he will be left severely alone - if he achieve a
masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a-wagging. Jealousy does not protrude
its forked tongue at the artist who produces a common-place painting. Whatsoever
you write, paint, play, sing or build, no one will strive to surpass or to
slander you, unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long
after a great work or a good work as been done, those who are disappointed
or envious continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices
in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank,
long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes
flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while a little
group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced, argued angrily that he
was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton
could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks
to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader,
and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing
to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy ­
but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant.
There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as the
human passions ­ envy, fear, greed, ambition and the desire to surpass.
And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains ­ the
leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is
assailed and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good
or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That
which deserves to live - lives". </i>
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