alexpgp | A curious story of two deaths in Korea...

An item in today's version of The Washington Times tells a little-known story behind the movie Cease Fire!, which premiered in November 1953, some months after the cease-fire was signed. It concerns a man who died twice in one day.

The article closes with these words:

God chooses sides and commands us to do no less. The soldier is the epitome of this choice—a choice born of magnanimous, miraculous, meticulous love, with no expectation of return. For Ricardo, the war became what it becomes for all good soldiers. It wasn’t about communism, America or freedom. It was about those men he so loved, his “fellahs.” He went back to the front to be with them not because he had to but because he chose to.

The only fully mortal man to come close to comparing with a perfect gift of sacrifice is the warrior. Even with their own personal weaknesses, warriors achieve a type of selfless sacrifice that can only compare to godliness. They know that “greater love” isn’t measured by what you give but by what you give up for your friends. God bless the warriors—and forgive our treatment of them. Their vigilance is America’s only hope, for in the course of awful, painful, heartbreaking, glorious human events, they make the stands that cost their lives but save our souls.

Lest we forget—lest we forget!