2.12.2005
Truth is multidirectional
~Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, American Society of Newspaper Editors, 16 April 1953
So well put, General. I agree. I, too, have my little utopian shelf upon which like sentiments are placed, only to settle, agog, and to gather dust. But, I do hold out Hope. I think we all do, every one of us with a heart. My problem is this: for every gun made, warship launched, and every ordinance expended -- if those explosions are not answered in kind, then the blood they draw is lost in the mud of victim hell and grief.
Freedom comes with a price. And I know, dear hero, that most of those who use your quote in this day, are principally those who use it out of context. Thank you for your meritorious service, above and beyond the call of duty.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, American Society of Newspaper Editors, 16 April 1953
So well put, General. I agree. I, too, have my little utopian shelf upon which like sentiments are placed, only to settle, agog, and to gather dust. But, I do hold out Hope. I think we all do, every one of us with a heart. My problem is this: for every gun made, warship launched, and every ordinance expended -- if those explosions are not answered in kind, then the blood they draw is lost in the mud of victim hell and grief.
Freedom comes with a price. And I know, dear hero, that most of those who use your quote in this day, are principally those who use it out of context. Thank you for your meritorious service, above and beyond the call of duty.
// posted by HunterByrd @ 6:00 PM 
