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Recieved: 2001/09/23 20:46
Subject: [K-list] on the other hand
From: Michael Read
On 2001/09/23 20:46, Michael Read posted thus to the K-list:
There is a time to fight.
There are different ways to fight.
There is the soldiers way.
Postcard from (someone's son) with a picture of the statue of a soldier
that
stands in front of Ft. Benning, the Army Infantry School. On it is
subscribed:
I AM THE INFANTRY
"For two centuries I have kept your Nation safe, purchasing freedom with
my blood.
To tyrants, I am the day of reckoning. To the suppressed, the hope for
the future.
Where the fighting is thick, there I am ... I am the infantry! FOLLOW
ME!"
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This is the way of blood and destruction. We all know that. We know that
it has
been done before. We hope each time is the last time. We hope.
We will do it if we must. We would rather not. We want our children in
the garden, in school, on vacation, and safe. We do not want them in the
hospital, wearing crutches, or in the morgue.
There is an other way to fight. It does not involve the use of mass
destruction and death by personally held weapons . It is a hard way.
Those who fight this way can be at great peril.
It is the way of non-violence. It is based on the premise that all
people are worthy of life and the good things it has to offer. It is
seeing that there is a common bond between all peoples.
Practitioners of non-violence are sometimes folk who have accepted and
worked through their own violent tendancies. Others may simple see
non-violence as pure common sense.
If I do not harm you, there should be no need for you to harm me.
But, is non-violence an easy weapon to use? No, it is not. The very idea
runs contrary to the fabric of our age and even to our biology. We are
programmed it seems to fight. Watch children at play and they quickly
establish a hierarchy.
At the same time they usually have what appears to be an inbred sense of
fair play. Maybe, we are also programmed for co-operation.
Advocates of non-violence feel that co-operation and fair dealing are
far more preferable than mass human destruction and oppresion.
May we all begin to find common ground with one another.
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Soldier!
Where have you been?
To war!
To war is where I've been.
Soldier!
What have you seen?
Terror!
Terror and death have I seen.
Soldier!
Where to now?
The graveyard!
To sleep and dream of peace.
Michael
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