LETTER—Lest we forget
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With Remembrance Day approaching, we are reminded yet again that no freedom is so outrageously and so often abused as the freedom to do nothing.
And so not just on this one special occasion but throughout the year we should all perhaps reflect on some words written during the Second World War in the form of a poem whose authorship remains disputed but whose sentiment remains true and eloquent to this day and always:
“It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier, not the lawyer, who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves under the flag and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn that same flag!”
Edmund Burke perhaps said it best when he observed: “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Lest we forget!
E.W. Bopp,
Delta
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