“We'll be the first to give the example (...), if necessary we will offer our ventilator to the man who has a wife and children.”

As we go through life, we gain personal references who we admire, who influence us and who give us examples with their words and conduct. This also has been the case with me, with several people, not only with relatives but with others, more or less close to me. General António Ramalho Eanes is one of them.