FRIDAY FOTO (September 29, 2017)

Invictus.

(U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Daniel Luksan)

Medically retired U.S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal Sarah Rudder competes in the 200-meter dash in Toronto, Canada during Invictus Games 2017, an international Paralympic-style event. Rudder, who lost her leg due to injuries suffered at the Pentagon on 9/11, won seven gold medals at last year’s games in Orlando, Florida.

The Invictus Games, held September 23-to-30, are an international program created by Britain’s Prince Harry, in which wounded, injured, or sick service members and veterans compete in adaptive sports. The UK royal founded the event in 2014, inspired by the U.S. Defense Department-funded Warrior Games in America. The inaugural Invictus Games were held in September 2014, at many of the venues used for the 2012 London Olympics, according to the Telegraph website.

The poem Invictus, by English Victorian poet, William Ernest Henley, himself an amputee, ends with the famous lines:

I am the master of my fate,

      I am the captain of my soul.

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