When we say "Never Forget," we are not speaking to the dead. They are beyond our memory now. We are speaking to ourselves. We are reminding the living that safety is borrowed, that peace is a fragile architecture held up by the bones of those who fell holding the line.
And then, take a breath. Feel the ground beneath your feet. Notice that you are still here, still breathing, still capable of choosing. all the fallen
To all the fallen: