They’ll get their memorials and statues. Candles and other flames will burn in perpetuity, a Foundation might be started, because that’s all we can do for them. Sort of like “thoughts and prayers” after a classroom’s worth of first graders is mowed down by an evil crazy person.
Our soldiers who go off to war and don’t come back will be remembered as fallen heroes who answered the call to duty, who died too young, too soon. Those left behind will ask “Why?” and there will be no good answer. There will never be a good answer, except to admit to the same old story– that we are slow to learn, and are as yet unable to move beyond pettiness and the relentless need to prevail.
Well, that and believing that the fight is all about God’s will. No one dare forget what God ordains in the midst of all this tragedy and bloodshed and squandered promise.
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