12-28-2013, 06:06 AM
Shortly after my brother came home from Iraq, I remember hearing a quote from T. Sempronius Gracchus that really hit home:
"The wild beasts that roam over Italy have their dens and holes to lurk in, but the men who fight and die for our country enjoy the common air and light and nothing else. Is it their lot to wander with their wives and children, house-less and homeless, over the face of the earth? ... The truth is that they fight and die to protect the wealth and luxury of others. They are called masters of the world, but they do not posses a single clod of earth that is truly their own."
Nihil novi sub sole.
"The wild beasts that roam over Italy have their dens and holes to lurk in, but the men who fight and die for our country enjoy the common air and light and nothing else. Is it their lot to wander with their wives and children, house-less and homeless, over the face of the earth? ... The truth is that they fight and die to protect the wealth and luxury of others. They are called masters of the world, but they do not posses a single clod of earth that is truly their own."
Nihil novi sub sole.
