And next month will be two years for my best friend’s brother who was killed in Iraq. What would we say to them? The recent defenders?
The same thing. We don't let them let them die in vain. Where we go next is hard to say. We will figure it out at some point.
Renee,
Tell those soldiers that there exists a three headed serpent forged with the captured weapons of an invading army over 2500 years ago.
Still exists today in an ancient hippodrome in a city once called Constantinople 2500 years after it was first forged.
What does it commemorate? The final defeat of the Persian army in the battle of Plataea by the Greeks. Forged with the following words:
“The saviours of Greece at large dedicated this,
having delivered the cities from wretched servitude.”
Freedom is not granted by the pontifications of the president, nor by the elucidations of the elite, but the same as it always has, by the blood and sweat of the men who refused to submit.