Posted on October 11, 2017February 10, 2018 And so, when, thirty years from now, our brothers go down the street without a leg, without an arm, or a face, and small boys ask why, we will be able to say “Vietnam” and not mean a desert, not a filthy obscene memory, but mean instead where America finally turned, and where soldiers like us helped it in the turning.
Posted on April 1, 2017October 13, 2017 I think we know what military fame is: To be killed on the field of battle and have our names spelled wrong in the newspapers.
Posted on October 12, 2016October 13, 2017 I do not believe in weeds. Look at that glorious colour! A weed is simply a flower that someone decides is in the wrong place. Why should the Taraxacum struggle in the cracks? It deserves an efficacious spot in which to flourish.
Posted on April 7, 2015December 19, 2017 Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
Posted on November 22, 2014December 19, 2017 July 13, 5:00 P.M. En route. The Zephyr: Here I am this mid-July afternoon going home. And glad to be going home. Surely I care little about home and never have. Back to Nebraska to the hateful heat of summer, to work day after day, to monotony most would say. But glad! This long silver train makes swift passage. It is streaking across the flat Colorado country as I sit here alone. (Why should I be so near to tears?) The whole trip to Colorado is like a dream now. The whole thing drops from my shoulders now like a jeweled coat, and I lay it aside feeling I’ve never worn it at all.
Posted on July 27, 2013December 21, 2017 Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. I voted from conviction, not out determination or fear, but because of the feeling deep in my heart that this was the right thing to do.
Posted on May 12, 2012December 21, 2017 The Yellowstone Park is something absolutely unique in the world, so far as I know. This park was created and is now administered for the benefit and enjoyment of the people. The scheme of its preservation is noteworthy in its essential democracy. The only way that the people as a whole can secure to themselves and their children the enjoyment in perpetuity of what the Yellowstone Park has to give is by assuming the ownership in the name of the nation and by jealously safeguarding and preserving the scenery, the forests, and the wild creatures.
Posted on September 3, 2009January 3, 2018 I wonder if leafs feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling?
Posted on July 22, 2009April 9, 2023 I can’t accept the world the way it is. It’s too horrible, but I have to try to change it. My choice is either take it or do something about it — or try to do something about it. I think we have an obligation to those who have died and to those have survived. To try, never to stop trying to make it a more humane world. And that’s what I do and I ask others to do the best they can — try. And if we try hard enough and long enough, I’m confident it will come about.
