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December 28, 2010 at 10:30 pm #597455
DPMemberWhy do all
the simple-seeming things
turn out so hard?
Ask a physicist: Why is there gravity?
— and you’ll see
his universe expanding
even as your own contracts
But that’s grand science after all.
What about those little human things
that each of us calls his own?
Dice, it seems
in the hands of philosophers.
What is virtue?
What is “the good”?
We know what virtue is, Socrates
yet find we cannot say it.
So be it.
Let us, then
in one gesture
concede the mysteries
of God and Man alike
and confess
to understand all things
only by example.
Patriotism.
—What is it?
We confess, we do not know.
Good.
But let us take some young man, for example . . .
Not just any young man, mind
but some especially kind and thoughtful one.
A man with home and loving family.
A man, in short
with everything to live for
And let us say to him:
You there! Young man
With everything to live for!
Will you die for your country?
And if the man steps forward, answering:
Yes. I will die for my country.
Then let that, my friends
be patriotism.
And in the meantime, gentlemen
you may dispute
upon the nature of gravity
and say what you like
about war and peace
about Man in general
or any man in particular
But please
spend not one minute more
on the question of patriotism
For we know what that is.
—D.P.
Dedicated to the Memories
of Jarod Newlove and Justin McNeley
United States Navy
“Our guys.”
December 28, 2010 at 11:30 pm #712392
WSMomParticipantthank you
December 29, 2010 at 12:53 am #712393
MBParticipantI’m so glad to come across this :) Thank you DP…
Jarod was one of my brother’s oldest friends and has been on my mind quite a bit this holiday season. If praying is what I do, then I’ll be doing just that in the coming year for Jarod’s wife, kids, brother and family. I’ll also be saying a prayer for Jarod’s best friend, who heads to Afghanistan in a few months.
December 29, 2010 at 3:03 am #712394
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