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Hekate

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6. Something the Trumps of the world will never understand: duty, honor, love of country...

Reply to NurseJackie (Original post)

Sat Sep 5, 2020, 04:03 PM

Sep 2020

Most of all, love of something beyond one’s self, a love that enlarges and expands the self.

These youngsters who take up arms in our name, they trust us to keep faith with them.

Trump shames us all past endurance.

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Something the Trumps of the world will never understand: duty, honor, love of country... Hekate Sep 2020 #6