"Make It Green"

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: Apologies if this has been posted already, but I found it quite beautiful. : And I thought to share it with my fellow Askewbians. I was very impressed : by the fact that this email-forward that a friend of mine sent me today was : written by none other than Roger Ebert. Please, check out his message. : Let's not focus on his issues with Kevin Smith's latest movie...Jeez, it : seems like such a long time ago since the anticipation to see "Jay and : Silent Bob Strike Back" was such a primary thought held in the forefront of : my mind's eye. Things like that just don't seem quite as important these : days... : steelyjack : P.S. Give blood. : ................................. : "Make It Green" : : BY ROGER EBERT : If there is to be a memorial, let it not be of stone and steel. : Fly no flag above it, for it is not the possession of a nation but a sorrow : shared with the world. : Let it be a green field, with trees and flowers. : Let there be paths that wind through the shade. : Put out park benches where old people can sun in the summertime, and a pond : where children can skate in the winter. : Beneath this field will lie entombed forever some of the victims of : September 11. : It is not where they thought to end their lives. : Like the sailors of the battleship Arizona, they rest where they fell. : Let this field stretch from one end of the destruction to the other. : Let this open space among the tower mark the emptiness in our hearts. : But do not make it a sad place. : Give it no name. : Let people think of it as the green field. : Every living thing that is planted there will show faith in the future. : Let students take a corner of the field and plant a crop there. : Perhaps corn, our native grain. : Let the harvest be shared all over the world, with friends and enemies, : because that is the teaching of our religions, and we must show that we : practice them. : Let the harvest show that life prevails over death, and let the gifts show : that we love our neighbors. : Do not build again on this place. : No building can stand there. : No building, no statue, no column, no arch, no symbol, no name, no date, no : statement. : Just the comfort of the earth we share, to remind us that we share it. : ----------------------------------------------------------- : : ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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