Bill Weintraub

Re: In respect of fallen warriors

5-25-2008

Thank you RM.

We need to remember, in our modern era, and unfortunately, not just our fallen Warriors, but the fact that before they fell, most of them were denied the Love of a fellow Warrior.

That's the brutal truth.

These Men were robbed of Life, and before they were robbed of Life, they were robbed of Love.

This is something we looked at in some depth in AGOGE III: The Longing for Masculinity, where we talked about the World War II memoirs of Douglas Allanbrook.

Allanbrook described how he refused to share a bed with a fellow soldier, Leonard, not long before they went into battle.

Leonard was killed; and Allanbrook's refusal to honor their mutual Masculinity blighted the rest of Allanbrook's long, 20th-century, heterosexualized, life.

Life expectancy in ancient Greece wasn't very great.

There were many wars; and many young Men, and not-so-young Men, died in those wars.

Or from other causes.

But before they died, they'd at least Lived as MEN.

Fully and completely.

Freely --

and Naturally.

On this Memorial Day -- and every day -- it's our duty to remember that;

and to resolve, as did our American Founding Fathers, that Warriors of the future, like those of the past, have as their right Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Manly Happiness -- at its fullest and most truly Masculine.

Thank you RM.

You're a true Warrior.

Bill Weintraub

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