[metesky]

On "The Sopranos," one sees a plot twist being signaled: Tony and Carmella will stay together, and Tony will attempt to extricate himself from his life, removing himself and his family to the Hudson River Valley farm where he spent some happy boyhood summers. On the farm, in the last scene, he is smoking his cigar, full face to the camera. We are left to wonder if it will work.

It will not work.

The man whose farm was used as Union headquarters at the battle of Gettysburg was sickened by the war and moved to get away from it, once and for all.

He moved to Appomattox Courthouse and his home was used by Grant and Lee to sign the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia.

In the mid-thirties there was a man who saw the gathering storm and wanted to protect his family from the coming catastrophic war. He moved his family to the most out of the way Pacific island he could afford, Guadalcanal.

You have to stay and fight the good fight or you are lost, morally and physically.

[metesky]

I forgot to add that Tony Soprano is, of course, lost anyway.