It's after midnight. Work calls in just a few hours. Memorial Day is another year away now......
Somehow just moving on isn't happening. There are moments from yesterday keeping me awake. In my head the past - a video - Vietnam, November 8, 1965, death and those who did not die; the here and now - the haunting picture of a massive eagle sitting on a tombstone; the future - Daniel Greenfield's warning in - The Warrior's Tale.
"The
warrior's tale is a simple enough thing. Strong as steel, but fragile
as chance. It is the wind in his soul and the wall we build around
ourselves to tell us who we are.
Before
there were cities or nations, and railways and airports, computers and
telephones - the tale was told around campfires. Acted out in
pantomime, dressed up in animal furs and cave paintings. But the tale
was the same. The people were confronted with a threat and they called
upon the best and strongest of their men to go out and fight it. These
were their warriors. What they did in the face of that threat is the
tale.
The
tale has many variations. Sometimes there are many warriors, sometimes
only a handful. They march into the village of the enemy in triumph, or
they make a last stand on a rocky outcropping, spending the last of
their heart's blood to buy time they will never know.
There
is the weak man who becomes strong, the strong man who becomes weak,
the woman who mourns the man who will never return, and the man who goes
off to battle with nothing to lose. These tales have been told
countless times in the ages of men, and they will be told again for as
long as men endure.
It
is not only the warriors who need the tale, or those left behind.
Future generation learn who they are from this tale. "We are the people
who died for this land," is the unseen moral of each tale. "We bled for
it. Now it is yours to bleed and die for."
The
warrior's tale tells each generation that they stand on the wall
against a hostile world. And that the wall is made not of stones, but of
their virtues. Their courage, their integrity and their craft. Theirs
is the wall and they are the wall-- and if they should fail, then it
will fail. And the land and the people will be swept away."
It continues if one dare read more...
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h/t Bob Owens - Remember Them
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