Social Sense
I am the Unknown Soldier
And maybe i died in vain,
But if I were alive and my country called,
I'd do it all over again.
by Billy Rose
Heavy the load we undergo,
And our own hands prepare,
If we have parley with the foe,
The load our sons must bear.
This stanza hit me right between the eyes. Were it that the pacifist anti-war liberal elitists could simply understand this new foe, who with us does not wish to parley.
"Pacifist anti-war liberal elitists."
Wow! That's a mouthful.
Would the opposite of that be a
"Bellicose pro-war conservative commoner?"
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."
John Stuart Mill
Great choice, Mustang. Great choice.
Don't have a poem or quote, but I do have 5 minutes of music and pictures:
http://mistersnitch.blogspot.com...-is-
online.html
Patton's Prayer:
"...Graciously hearken to us as soldiers who call upon Thee that armed with Thy power, we may advance from victory to victory, and crush the oppression and wickedness of our enemies, and establish Thy justice among men and nations. Amen."
I wonder if General Patton had read this poem by Kipling. I suspect so! Patton didn't have much use for "parley with the foe," did he?
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing-Edmund Burke
Wonderful post Mustang.
good job by you Mustang
And again, I wont try to compete with the intellectual and learned ones here. I dont have a decent quote in my back pocket. I need to read more I think.
Mustang, I always have enjoyed Kipling. Hope you are well as nary a peep out of you since the 10th when you posted this. All the world, or some of it anyway, awaits your next posting.
Semper Fidelis
I wonder how history will remember that day. How will history judge the conspiratorial jerks who dishonor all
of us.
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