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A line from my second book: What we must do to protect the flesh tends to scar the soul. The gleeful hatred of those who look on war and terror with righteous ecstasy is an attribute of war and terror. Acts and their perpetrators can not be separated from a culture's lust for death and sadism. As we are of our culture, each individual is engaged with a forever war against her own hatred and death-lust: or not, if individuality is already lost. Obvious as are the scars of the broken and cast- aside, the wounds inflicted on all of us by the lust for destruction and the championing of tribal hatreds lie deeper and forever generate new atrocities and dehumanisations, new hatreds and the forever enemy with forever new labels. "The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles...." - Eugene Debs Many years ago Rudyard Kipling wrote in his Epitaphs of the War: 'If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied.' Once one realized somebody actually doing this to us it is simply impossible to sit quiet and not raise the voice against acting perpetrators and their accomplices; only with light one can stop the Bacchanalia of shadows and force them shrink to the corners, where they're belong... If you're having difficulty locating this poem, the actual title is: THE YOUNG DEAD SOLDIERS by Archibald MacLeish (1941) The young dead soldiers do not speak. Nevertheless, they are heard in the still houses: who has not heard them? They have a silence that speaks for them at night and when the clock counts. They say: We were young. We have died. Remember us. They say: We have done what we could but until it is finished it is not done. They say: We have given our lives but until it is finished no one can know what our lives gave. They say: Our deaths are not ours: they are yours, they will mean what you make them. They say: Whether our lives and our deaths were for peace and a new hope or... Our dead will not leave us in vain; Our fallen are save us as guards... Blue sky is reflecting in forest like water; And pines do standing all blue... After America’s wars, the used-up fighters are too often left to fend for themselves. This is inexcusable, and it comes with frightening moral costsMEMORIAL DAY PARADE by Steve Savage "King of the Beasts" http://sskotb.blogspot.com/2007/05/at-parade-by-steve-savage.html |
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