[Zhang Fei]

Ukraine ping

A reminder that the Special Military Operation continues felling both ordinary and extraordinary Ukrainians. Could he have fled to the West? Very likely. Yet he chose to make a stand so his nation might live. Like his less well-known civilian counterparts, his name has entered the pantheon of heroes who answered their nation’s call to arms and paid the ultimate price. When Ukraine finally evicts the Russians from its soil, Ukraine’s old Russian place names will likely be supplemented gradually with the names of heroes who gave their present, so the nation might have a future, much as Revolutionary War heroes are similarly remembered.

[gloryblaze]

A reminder that the Special Military Operation continues felling both ordinary and extraordinary Ukrainians. Could he have fled to the West? Very likely. Yet he chose to make a stand so his nation might live. Like his less well-known civilian counterparts, his name has entered the pantheon of heroes who answered their nation’s call to arms and paid the ultimate price. When Ukraine finally evicts the Russians from its soil, Ukraine’s old Russian place names will likely be supplemented gradually with the names of heroes who gave their present, so the nation might have a future, much as Revolutionary War heroes are similarly remembered.

Ditto.

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