Peggy Noonan says: now is a time to just be happy. Amen. Banagor is happy too, putting these events in perspective and saying:
bq. "There indeed are harder times ahead. Perhaps the memory of this day will help see us through the other harder ones to come."
All true, and joy comes to each of us in its own way. Some readers had Motorhead's song "Ace of Spades" running through their head yesterday. I heard a Rob Rice poem instead, a stirring piece of verse deservedly featured in the Wall St. Journal's Day of Poetry for the War and run here on March 13th:
bq. "The time has come for thunderbolts
Of steel from the sky.
It is now right that murderers
Instead of children, die.
They have forged chains and thumbscrews while
We have made pleas and threats.
The portraits of the killer smile
But he must pay his debts...
A mountainside is split in two, His coward legions fall. His shackled cities fade from view Beneath a smoky pall. Armored treads sound in the street, The tanks are not his own. He has bid many to be slain. He'll face his death alone. Cineas told Pyrrhus that 'Rome has a thousand heads.' And Rome was a republic, strong After that king was dead. The tyrant butchers live in fear And we go on and on. A century shall find us here And every tyrant gone. Our carriers loom off his coast. Our bombers fill his skies. And brave, skilled men with stealthy tread Prepare his grim surprise. Grant, and Sherman, Patton, Greene Have taught us to make war. We now pick up their legacy And free the world once more"So he wrote. So it was. The tyrant butchers live in fear... and we go on and on.
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