Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
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4/ He would say, "Are you scared, soldier?" And they would often say "Yes, Sir." Many of them put on war paint that night. Eisenhower would say to them "Just keep moving. That's the thing. Just keep moving." If you really think about those men today, it rips your heart to shreds.
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3/ On the night before the D-Day invasion Eisenhower did what he often did: took a walk among the soldiers. He knew no matter whether he the invasion succeeded or failed, he was sending more men to their death in battle than had ever before died in a single military operation.
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2/ These words from FDR: "I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded . . . I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed . . . I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war."
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1/ What made the leaders of WW2 so profound was that they viscerally knew the horrors of war. There was nothing about it that felt like a game with them. You get a sense of the depth of their grief that they had to send men to war.
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3/ "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein
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2/ The horror of Covid could just as easily have been a nuclear catastrophe, conceivably with worse & even permanent results. Naive to think we’re any less vulnerable to that than we were to this. Another area where we must radically re-imagine the future if we’re to survive it.
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1/ When I would talk on the campaign trail about things like a Department of Peace - about proactively waging peace - people would sometimes say to me “Marianne, you’re right but people aren’t ready for this yet.” I would often respond, “How much time do you think we have?”
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Memorial Day toast:May there come a day when museums of war are dedicated to a phenomenon that no longer exists. May there come a day when the the last person who experienced war takes with them to the grave the only living memory of the experience that still existed on the earth
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Those truly carrying the cross and the flag know that the highest act of patriotism, and the deepest discipleship of Jesus, is to love their fellow Americans.
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You better believe people were praying about that oil spill. Billions of people around the world pray about such things every day. Check out how many times Lincoln talked about God in the second Inaugural address. The fact that you don’t respect something doesn’t make it stupid.
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Remembrances and blessings today on those who died for us. Let’s reflect on the lives they lived and on the horrors of war that killed them. No better day than this to devote ourselves to the creation of a world in which war shall be no more. War itself should die, not soldiers.
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3/ ...”and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” - Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address. abrahamlincolnonline.org/lin…
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2/ “...that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom —...”
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1/ “It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- ...”
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“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.” - Sinclair Lewis downwithtyranny.blogspot.com…
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