Born of the sun they traveled a short while
towards the sun
And left the vivid air singed with their honor
— Stephen Spender
WW I poet,
“I Think Continually Of Those”
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We are a nation of people who are afraid to speak up on
unpopular issues…
— William J. Lederer
in A Nation of Sheep
(published in 1961)
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and what i want to know is
how do you like your blueeyed boy
Mister Death
— e.e. cummings
XXI, “Buffalo Bill’s defunct…”
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Capt. Thomas Falkenthal, a priest from the
Archdiocese of Chicago serving with the
Marine Battalion Landing Team, said he
worries when he hears some troops say they
want to erase Lebanon from their memory.
“That kind of raises a caution flag,” he said.
“Because then it becomes a ghost. Sometimes
you have to look the ghost in the eye.”
— New York Times, in March 19, 1984
article about the deaths of 200 Marines
in the bombing of their barracks in
Beriut, Lebanon in 1983