The name of the fund is taken from the title of an essay he wrote in the spring of the same year. His essay was the symbolic response of a young man facing the hope of cure for two years, only to be confronted with the reality of death during the third year. Nearing and being aware of death, experiencing the physical discomfort, and realizing the chances that were taking place in himself, his family, and his friends, as a result of his ordeal, he wrote The Four Diamonds. Clear is his message describing the struggles fought with the weapons of courage, wisdom, honesty, and strength to ultimate victory. Yet victory in his case was not to mean cure or life.
Victory means different things to different people.
For some, victory means that there are others who care, who care enough to share with those who need help. Most of these people are strangers who in their sharing become friends without specific names or faces.