PeteFree.comPerspective against Apathy ─ The Washington Post’s “Faces of the Fallen”
© 2010 Peter Free
04 November 2010
Apathy in the face of other people’s sacrifice is the national soul’s most killing adversary
It is probably not possible to overcome the forgetfulness most of us display in regard to our current wars.
Yet ─
The Washington Post’s Faces of the Fallen online memoriam offers a perspective check similar to visiting Arlington National Cemetery.
In the silence of viewing name and name, photograph after photograph, and reading brief circumstances of each death ─ a glimmer of the costs of war blooms.
With irremediable sadness.