Thoughts approaching the first anniversary of SaveRoot!

When I think about it, I guess it’s strange that I’ve been left a bitter old man at the age of twenty-two. Most weary, well-worn soldiers settled into contemplate their scars are secure in the knowledge that the "Good Old Days" lasted longer than the time left to reminisce about them. This is not how things were supposed to be. Ah well. I suppose if all one has left is to tell the story one ought to tell it as often and as well as possible. So visit www.saveroot.com, it’s still there, and always will be as long as I have a say in it. I don’t care if you’ve read every word on it, go there and read it again. In the words of the film I just watched ("Amazing Grace"): "By natural justice we ought to have won."
Here is another quote from a different sort of film (and, by the by, an example of how a man of discernment may find truth and profundity in any setting). From the character Geoffrey Chaucer in "A Knight's Tale": "I will eviscerate you in fiction. Every pimple, every character flaw. I was naked for a day; you will be naked for eternity." More succinctly put, never ---- with a writer. They say that history is written by the victor, but in our Age of Information it would probably be better put "history is written by those who bother to write history down" (being truthful, accurate, insightful, well written, and entertaining helps as well).
This is a good thought for those of my persuasion in this issue, but another one is "the best revenge is a life well lived." We must be careful to imitate the sentiment of this quote from Moby Dick "He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it." Our continuing pursuit of justice ought not become an Ahabic quest for revenge, for that will consume us as well in the end.
Don't follow the course of the kamikaze but rather remember that your greatest act of defiance is continued survival. On the ashes of many great things have been lain the foundations of many greater things. Recall the words etched on the pedestal of the statue at the entrance of the National Archives: "What is past is prologue..."