those who vow to never forget
The Trail of Tears
Antietam
Sharpsburg
Sand Creek
The Little Bighorn
Wounded Knee
The U.S.S. Maine
Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria
Versailles
Nanking
Kristallnacht
Auschwitz
Warsaw
Pearl Harbor
Stalingrad
Dresden
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Nuremberg
Tulsa
Chosin
The Gulf of Tonkin
Mai Lai
Kent State
Soweto
Lockerbie
Tianenmen
Sarajevo
Oklahoma City
Rwanda
Baghdad
Guantanamo
Abu Ghraib
Benghazi
January 6
Kabul
or Kyiv
though there be
no imperative to do so
“…let the force of conscience now be exercised,
and let this text be to you, for a moment,
like the throne of Jesus…”
~Charles Spurgeon, on Psalm 103:12
As far as the east is from the west,
so far has our father removed
the transgressions of his children.