When we forgive, we free ourselves from the crippling responsibility of being the self-appointed keeper of the memory of the pain. --Karen Scalf Linamen
"Guilty as Lieutenant Calley may have been of the actual act of murder, the verdict does not single out the real criminal ... the United States of America," --Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry
Reported by the New York Times 33 years ago, Kerry condemned the entire country as "criminal" during a 1971 demonstration on Wall Street, a few weeks after the trial of Lt. William Calley.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden (1854)