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Along with human conditions providing writing inspiration, so too, historical events.

Take the United States for example. A civil war was fought. North against the South. After the war, memorials and stories were written about the victors and losers. For years, statues of Confederate people of importance, those people who were of historical note are now being toppled and derided. History is always rewritten by modern writers of mood and choice. Always has been this way and it always will.

Recently, it is popular by many to follow personal whims and desires with no thought to self-sacrifice or honor. Just look at those toppling a statue because they don’t ‘like’ it…

A country is only as healthy as those who live in it and sacrifice their will for the greater good of others, even if that sacrifice goes against their personal beliefs. Writing too, is only as good as those authors who write with sacrifice. Blog writers, opinion writers… authors of any kind that only bloviate and press the ‘topic of the moment’ will fade away with history leaving those authors such as, Anne Frank, Adolf Hitler, Mark Twain… (those authors who for whatever a ‘modern’ person of belief would consider them to be good OR evil) those authors who truly bled for their writing… will endure the whacky world of ‘the moment’.

Today is the anniversary of 9-11. A day a group of people caught up in their belief to the point of sacrificing themselves by killing thousands by hijacking commercial planes into the Trade Towers; a group of others who sacrificed themselves trying to save the people being killed; finally, the victims who were sacrificed for no other reason than being caught in the ‘moment’.

Will humanity ever learn from history? Of course, the answer is a definite no. And this means that there will always be authors who will last the coming thousands of years writing the sacrifice of Good and Evil…and the billions of writers who only embrace the flavor of the moment that will fade away faster than a tulip can stay in bloom.

Thus, all inspirational.

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Writer

By what means is the word put to test
measuring the mettle of the proud and meek
with a question, an answer, a fact, a belief?

Words are slaves to a master
unless
the master give the words the page to be free

Then

How does the story, the news, the history unfold
when a word has nothing sincere
nothing
not a drop of blood
not even the slightest feeling of pain?

There are those who try to kill with opinion, with belief, with selfish greed
not in flesh but in actions of releasing the words
to be
‘free’

Freedom of expression
First Amendment
United States of America
Land of the free…

Ask the terrorists who gave their lives for their belief
Ask the 9-11 victims slaughtered while trapped in death as the towers broke free
Ask the first responder’s, the police, the firemen who gave their lives to try and save strangers, those even
with opposing beliefs…
Ask them, ask anyone who has given the ultimate sacrifice…
and the answer would be,
nothing,
nothing in this world is free.