Humanity is tasked to uphold a vigil on behalf of one another. Men and women of good conscience will have moments such as this that transcend the realities of war. That smile Do Hoa has, his embrace, gunner Lawrence Colburn’s smile, some day others will bridge the time from now until then in similar ways after being placed in similar situations.

Tater, thanks for this information and Simon,too. Both of you bring up examples of Americans in service now who uphold the Constitution by defending the human rights of others made victims of war.

These efforts will anchor opportunity for others to connect with humanity on terms that also transcend the loss they’ve faced in this war, there and here.

Those people will build the bridges to common ground, will elevate one another’s souls, in the future. They’ll be the people who help secure the peace.

* as students we would repeat that using a bad imitaion of Hoppers absurdly deep baritone…*

the dialogue that is eternal between the great philosophers and the individual to be of great merit

As I was inferring to your original comments, “I agree,” and I further agree with your additional comments.

I forgot an important thing: Paths can be vastly different. I think growing up I had an undiagnosed learning disability, so I gravitated towards more of a mentorship thing with my elders. My best friend in high school was a teacher. That learning disability whatever it is: I find it hard to read books, it almost hurts to. But I have no problem writing or conversing verbally. I also learn better by doing and prefer to teach myself.

So bottom line: there is more than one path to the same knowledge or goal, and I’ll add, many times we may not find what we originally sought, but might be happier with the results. Or even unhappy with the results but learn from them anyway. Experience in of itself holds value.

This is something I wrote, which is kind of how my mind works:

“I have learned that apparently disparate things or events are many times related in unforeseeable ways. The tree of disparateness can actually bear real fruit!”

Mind you, I am not saying my “way” is any better than your “way” or anyone else’s.

A hero, to me.

And the many JAGS who came forward in regard to legal abuses at GITMO.

They are all inspirations.

Also, the soldier who reported Abu Ghraib

Absolutely! Hugh Thompson also received death threats and dead animals on his porch.
Thanks for the tip.

And it was the cover up of the break in the DNC offices that brought Nixon down.

Colon Bowel has largely gotten away with being one of the bad guys — but he lacks character and he lacks leadership ability.

Thank you for also remembering the role Colon Bowel played!

And for this reason alone he is unfit for leadership. He further showed he true character when he stood in front of the UN and LIED about Iraq and he showed cartoons to back up his lies.

People should know about these men, they are very inspiring.

This is such an Important story to Write about…Such a contrast between Good and Evil..and how war can reduce Humans to such a Brutal State of Mind…

Thank you for this story about these Good Men who tryed so hard to hang onto thier sanity and Humanity during that War..

I always appreciate you sensitive and Interesting Contributions here TATERS…Make Music..Not War..

The “Hitler-Jugend” (easiliy manipulated and sought by charlatans/poser-leaders like Obama) flocking to Obama don’t understand it takes years to develop truth discernment skills, and some people never develop them too well — the young, impressionable and inexperienced youth are incapable of differentiating the message from the man and his true motivations, background and hidden agenda.