There was a veteran of war “who was in it, who survived it and came home from it, and did not talk about it. There were several . . . who went and fought and came home and lived to be old men here, whose memories contained in silence the farthest distances of the world, terrible sights, terrible sufferings. Some of them were heroes. And they said not a word. They stood among us like monuments without inscriptions. They said nothing or said little because we have barely a language for what they knew, and they could not bear the pain
of talking of their knowledge in even so poor a
language as we have."
from Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
Today and always I'm grateful for our men and women who serve in the Armed Forces. Thank you!
--Nancy.
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