Victory Resolve: The Fallen (Written On 5/2/2011) Poem by Richard Ford Bunuel Whale Carnegie Edison Simon Hitchcock Welles Christ Antunes Rodriguez Kubrick

Victory Resolve: The Fallen (Written On 5/2/2011)
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In Victory...
May There Be A Prolonged Era Of Peace.
For All Life In Resolution.
For The Strife That Comes With War.

War Is An Illogic;
Course Of Events Repeated,
Throughout All Human History.
Of The Illogic Rationale...
That Breeds Within Those With A Disregard,
Toward Peace And The Humanity Denied.

In Cutting Off The Head Of The Hydra,
Be Sure To Cauterize The Stumps
From Growing Back Anymore Heads...
Victory Resolve!

With Each Passing Generation...
There Runs A Risk In Forgetting...
The Unfathomable Scope Of Atrocity...
Because There Is A Disconnect In Years Hence.

Preservation Within An Individual...
Is A Microcosm Of Remembrance.
A Culture That To Most...
Such Things Don't Happen Until They Do.

Happening In Variation Upon A Past,
Society Fails To Learn.
Because Of The Disconnect That Cocoons.
The Innocent From These Scars,
That Mar Human History.

The Impact Is Unperceived.
Due To The Gap Of Generations.
Never To Become Actual.
Fore The Loss Of An Individual...
Cuts Off Whatever Bloodline Of Descent...
That Could Have Arisen.
Never To Be A Reality... Just A Hypothetical.

A Scar Upon History...
Is A Lingering Sign Of Actual Loss?
To Be Scarred Is To Be Pained.
To Be Healed Is To Live...
To Live Is Not Just To Live For Yourself,
But For The Unfortunates Who Are Unable To.

Because The Sentiments Shared,
Are Sentiments Relevant To Any Age.
Whether It Be The Holocaust Or 9/11,
The Sentiments Are Universal.

Relevance To Any Era.
Validated In Kind To All,
In Bringing An End To War,
That Justifiably Should End In Peace...
For All Man And Womankind.

In Retaliation For A Wrong...
None Wronger Than Snuffing Out 3,000 Innocents...
In Killing Doesn't Bring Back The Dead...
But Vindicates The Innocents,
Who Are Unfortunate To Be Missing...
In A Present They Deserved To Have Reached.

I Am Against The Death Penalty.
Apart Of Me Would Have Wanted,
To Have Seen Bin Laden In A Court Of Law,
Tried For The Atrocities Against Humanity...
He Was Guilty.

Is It Wrong Of Me In Having Wanted...
The Justice System To Bring To Justice,
The Man Responsible For The Loss...
Of Lives Forever Mourned.

In His Death,
Does That In Anyway Resurrect The Dead?
No... But In Taking On Characteristics Of The Enemy...
By Unflinchingly Taking A Life...
Bring Us Down To The Level Of Our Enemies...
Who Without Hesitation,
Take Lives Of Innocents....

Osama Was Guilty;
Far From Innocent...
I Would Have Had Justice Served...
In A Tribunal...

Where The Attention of The World...
Would Be With The U.S.
As More Humane Than Our Enemies,
Enemies Who Take The Lives Of Innocents,
Its Conflicting This Bloodlust And Rejoice For Killing.
Could It Have Been Better By Example...
To Show The World That We Are Better...
Than Our Enemies.

By Not Succumbing To Their Level...
By Having Not Succumb To An Itchy Trigger Finger...
But Instead Have Shown The World Our Humanity.

Would It Have Been Better...
By Example To Not Take Life?
Show How Much More Civilized And Humane...
That We Are Than The Enemy.

This Is My Opinion:
I Have The Freedom To Voice.
The Voices Of Thousands Were Silenced On 9/11.
I'm Sure In An Unanimous Vote,
By Those Who's Voices Were Silenced Forever...
If Given The Chance...
Would Have Wanted His Death.

Certainty Cemented...
Like Monument Or Statue.
But Conflict Still Arrose.
In Mind Of Etiquette...
Am I Less Of An American?
To Show The World And Our Enemies...
That We Are Better Than Them...
By Not Resorting To Take Life.
The Eyes Of A World Is Upon US.

I Found This Disturbing:
People Rejoiced Over Killing This Morning.
Are We Not Better Than Our Enemies?
I Believe We Are.

And In Being So...
Should We Have Not Shown The World,
Our Superiority in Morality?
Killing Bin Laden Does Not Resurrect The Dead.

But Would This Not Be Victory:
A Day Of Triumph...
If He Had Been Taken Alive?
To Show The World,
Our Process Of Bringing To Justice The Guilty;
Our System Of Government;
That Bin laden Had Defied.

What I Am Sure...
That Those Voices Who Were Forever Silenced...
If Given A Breathe Worth Of Voice... For An Instant,
Would Give Voice As Jury,
Of Thousands Silenced.
To Collectively Decide,
The Fate Of Their Murderer...
They Would Have Decided:
Guilty...
And Sentenced Him To Death.

Or Is It Possible,
They Would Have Shown,
An infinitesimal Amount Of Mercy?

They Were Denied to Live Out Full And Long Lives...
What Direction Would Have The Scales Of Justice Swayed?
In Attendance Upon Bin Laden's Death Were His Victims...
A Certainty For The Mourn.

To Wake To See People In Celebration,
Was His Death An Indicator Of Judgement...
Of A Jury Comprised Of His Many Victims...
Would They Have Wanted His Death?

Would They In The After Life,
(With Hindsight Upon Our Times) ,
Have Showed Mercy?
Or Would They Have A Chosen The Tact...
Of Least Hatred Impulse?

I Am Not One To Say.....
I Am One To Pose The Hypothetical.
I Am Neither A Victim Forever Silenced,
Or His Executioner.

I Am Alive... Not One To Take Life.
If I Had Been The One To Pull The Trigger,
Would I Have?
Or Would I Have Taken Him Alive?

To Be Brought In Front Of A Tribunal...
And Found Guilty And Punished...
By A System Of Government And Law,
Which Bin Laden In Life Had Defied...
Would Have Defied Bin Laden.

With A Humanist Declaration Of War...
That Give Voice To Those Silenced;
We Stand For Those Who Are Unable.

Peace For Every Life,
Fore The Past;
For The Future,
For Our Children.

The Dead Cannot Arrise...
But A Monument In Resolve,
Shall Arrise Peace Of Mind...
For The Fallen.