Re: [Leica] Re: Where We Post From

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

VERY well put, George...

George Lottermoser wrote:
> 
> msmall@roanoke.infi.net (Marc James Small)7/10/0110:52 PM
> 
> > moral integrity
> 
> Moral integrity is about wholeness of one's self. Not whether one
> is for or against going off to war and all of its ramifications.
> 
> A wise man said, "It is regrettable that weapons must sometimes
> be used, but occasionally, survival demands it. The wise go forth
> with weapons only as a last resort. They never rejoice in the
> skill of weapons, nor do they glorify war.
>     When death, pain, and destruction are visited upon what you
> hold to be most sacred, the spiritual price is devastating. What
> hurts more than one's own suffering is bearing witness to the
> suffering of others. The regret of seeing human beings at their
> worst and the sheer pain of not being able to help the victims
> can never be redeemed. If you go personally to war, you cross the
> line yourself. You sacrifice ideals for survival and the fury of
> killing. That alters you forever. That is why no one rushes to be
> a veteran. Think before you want to change so unalterably. The
> stakes are not merely one's life, but one's very humanity."
> 
> I say, honor each man for his choices in hard times; those who
> went and those didn't. We have no right to judge or shame a man
> whom we've not shared some long and serious time with.
> 
> George