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
We don’t. I don’t know that we ever have. It makes it that much more meaningful to me. Greater love hath no man…
No, we don’t. We never will.
Wow. I am crying at my desk reading his post.
The official word is out. Small arms fire in As Sadiyah; ambush. Also killed was CPT Thomas J. Casey, 32, of Albuquerque. The RMN site has a comment from a relative of Casey indicating the CACO notification was not done perfectly.
Assuming I make it through this school I will follow Olmsted’s example and make a ‘just in case’ post for wherever I’m eventually deployed.
I will miss them both and wish a lighter healing burden on their families.
Andrew was one of my very first design clients, a good friend and a good man. We honor him for his service and sacrifice.
For both MAJ Olmsted and Prof. Rosenthal:
“To absent friends, in memory still bright.”
- John Sheridan, Babylon 5
Was reading Balko’s site, and read about it there. Went over and read the last post.
Dang! I had heard about the guy, occasionally, but never looked up his stuff to read it.
I have just now gotten back from stepping outside and spilling a bit of the beer I’m drinking, on the ground.
May he thirst not, wherever he is!
Justthisguy, that’s a fine and ancient tradition you’ve just completed, dating at least back to Homer, pouring out your drink to the earth for the dry, thirsty heroes in Hades.
Indeed, may they never be thirsty again.