blackpowderredearth: Memorial Day piece we created for BCM. “Either we shall employ our streng
blackpowderredearth: Memorial Day piece we created for BCM. “Either we shall employ our strength, power and conscience boldly and righteously in defense of human dignity and freedom, or we shall waste these reserves for peace and default to the forces that breed new wars. (Each soldier) we bury is partly the victim of your folly and the folly of all peace-loving peoples who turn their backs on the ills of the world. Secure in distant and peaceful towns…clinging to comforts, refusing risks, seeking refuge in words, we recanted power and conscience to side with those who sought peace at any price. Too late we discovered the price was too high; and to keep freedom we paid in the bodies of our young sons…” General Omar Bradley Memorial Day 1948 -- source link