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#1 Foxbat

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Отправлено 28 Май 2007 - 17:21

Сегодня день памяти всех павших в войнах.

Покойтесь с миром, светлая вам память.

Requiem for the Unknown Soldier
Reflections on the Veterans March to Arlington, April 19, 1971


Brother, what can we say?

What validates a death?
Our fathers had parades, death swallowed up in Victory.
We stand before you only with our grief.

How can we face you?
Knowing your life was wasted
for betrayal of a gentle people
for women and children piled deep in graves
for empires and commerce grounded in misery
for strangers ignorant of freedom, unmoved by justice.

We have come to protest what we all have shared.
We have come to cry out before the nation the immorality that binds us all.

Can you forgive them, silent brother?
They lied and told you not to question.
They said the cause was great:

so you were brave
you gave everything
you didn't know it was for nothing.

In what lies your heroism?

Not in the flag that shrouds your crypt
Nor in the cause which caused your death.

You simply gave it all.

Your death transcends the pointlessness of your passing.
Let no one rob you of your honor in the crumbling of their lies.

We mourned you other times on the lonely hilltops, the empty valleys where you died.

Now we make this pilgrimage to the place you lie:

in your death we all have died.

We join you, brother.
Secretaries in carpools give you the flowers of their smiles.
Young men in suits give you the sign of peace.
The bearded motorcyclist shares with you
the clenched fist of the peoples' struggle.

The mother and wife give you
the tears of sorrow and loss.

The wounded brother in his wheelchair promises you will not go unremembered.


Where have all the flowers gone?
Where have all the young men gone?
When will they ever learn?

Requiescat in pace.

JHD
Washington
7 May 1971
Наша служба и опасна и трудна,
И на первый взгляд как будто не видна...
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