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Thought-provoking, pointed, and poignant
When we were in Knoxville three weeks ago, we walked around the World's Fair Park. It was a gorgeous weather day and we enjoyed being outside.
Eventually we wandered to the East Tennessee Veterans Memorial at the edge of the park.
I was struck by one of the engraved monoliths containing a poem written by Major Michael Davis O'Donnell at Dak To, Vietnam, on January 1, 1970.
Major O'Donnell would be killed in action in Cambodia a few weeks later, on March 24, 1970.
The poem touched my heart that day, and I sent a picture of it to my girls.
Charlie Kirk had only a few weeks more to live, too, on that late August day. And today as we continue to mourn the loss of a great American, this poem is fitting, I think.
Because we are in a war; the war of right versus wrong. Good versus evil. The eternal struggle in which we will be engaged until our Lord returns.
Charlie was a warrior and like Major O'Donnell, he died for his country.
He was nothing if not a gentle hero. But fierce in defense of God and of truth. Which are one and the same.
God bless America and confound her enemies both foreign and domestic.
Especially domestic.
And that is all for now.
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Happy Friday
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