Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
“Because you won’t read about them anywhere else.”, which is a shame.
And because the MSM’s view of the world is more a measure of their minds than it is a measure of the world.
H/T: Jacques Maritain
Cap’n,
You ask ‘Why?’ The answer that immediately comes to mind is:
‘Uncommon courage is a common virtue’
Each of these heroes represent something we often overlook when discussing the Armed Services. They are volunteers, they are intelligent, dedicated and loyal to their units.
That we won’t read (or hear) about them and their exploits is, as Jeopardy says, a shame. These heroes are better than the elites of this country ever were.
But we will read about them – because men like Lex will make sure we know about them. And those of us with blogs will pass the word around. And maybe somewhere at some time, someone who has tried hard to ignore such courage and virtue as displayed by these incredible men and women – will suddenly have the scales removed from their eyes and will see the world as it really is. Instead of the pablum they are force-fed by a media too full of their own self-importance to tell the truth, or even a tiny version of it.
Careful SD, those words are connected to a couple of days when it was literally true. The quote is “valor”. Not to diminish anything that anyone has done, but the gents who waded ashore on Iwo Jima faced a skilled prepared foe, and almost certain death.