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Contributed by duke on Tuesday, 15th September 2009 @ 12:09:38 PM in AEST
Topic: war

I stand in quiet awe and reverence
when I think of those who have gone before.
Be it on home shores or beaches far away

About how all had one thing in common that
bound them as nothing else could.

I know nothing of heroes
nor of warriors supreme
I only know of true men and women
committed to a cause to the end.

The seven hundred who stood against
the Legion of Rome's best at Masada

The three hundred who stood against
the two million at the Thermopylae

The country that was overrun by
by Empire after Empire yet still stands
known to the world as Israel

The hundred and sixty that stood against
4500 at Alamo Plaza In San Antonio, Texas

These were the true “People of Iron”,
not because of the training,
nor of pride, but of resolve.
The resolve of which history is made,
not of a need of notoriety,
that was the least of all the concerns,
but of the need of freedom.
No other human need can forge the
bond that will solidify the wills of the many into the
resolve of one for the betterment of all.
No force on earth can withstand that resolve,
and through it
ordinary men and women have obtained the persona
of hero and heroins
though not sought by any of them.

When their stories are told, you can do nothing but
stand in quiet awe and reverence.

Copyright Â© duke ... [ 2009-09-15 12:09:38]
(Date/Time posted on site)

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