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ret5hd

(20,489 posts) Fri Jun 8, 2012, 07:14 PM Jun 2012

The Greatest Horror Of War...

is the transformation of our children into heros.

A quote from the television show "The Outer Limits" that I just heard.

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The Greatest Horror Of War... (Original Post) ret5hd Jun 2012 OP

Orphans evermore DreamGypsy Jun 2012 #1

DreamGypsy

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1. Orphans evermore

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Sat Jun 9, 2012, 10:45 AM

Jun 2012

The first song on Dar Williams' latest album In the Time of Gods is I Am the One Who Will Remember Everything. It is a song about refugee camps, war, and children:

So where are we now, he must be five or six,
Just running around, hungry kids, sharpened sticks.
And he will grow with pain and fear and jealousy,
Taken in by schools of zealotry,
Who train orphans to make orphans evermore.
I am the one who will remember everything.

A great horror of war in our times.

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