Freedom's Fidelity

Thursday, June 02, 2005

Bridging History

Man, I really wish I could write as beautifully as Wretchard, I found this very moving:

One of the hardest things to read over the past few days have been the Memorial Day blog posts. Some quoted the last letters of soldiers and marines recently dead in Iraq; others cast memory back further. But the events recalled in each case stood the same distance away from everyday life. It's a gulf which no words can bridge. They've left us behind; and we are irremediably alone with a tale begun long ago and whose ending is now in our care. Memory is a burden; and the memory of love the heaviest of all.

So true, enough to make tears well up in my eyes and I probably could not even articulate exactly what this means to another. But I sure know.....

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