[P.O.E.]

That thought occurred to me today while I was talking to some vets about the phrase “they also serve who stand and wait”. I always thought it to mean giving credit to those who didn’t necessarily see combat, but worked behind the lines.

I looked it up and it’s a quote from John Milton, the blind poet of the 1600s (Paradise Lost, etc.)

Nobody knew who I was talking about.

Then I started wondering just how much of Western Civ has been written out of our culture, academia, etc.

And not by accident.

[Fester Chugabrew]

My Mom wrote that Milton out by hand for me in my youth. We both ought give it due consideration.