"Our revenge will be our children's laughter," Kevin Cullen of the Boston Globe, during an interview on NPR.
Although it is perilous to pretend to know what is in the minds' of others, I think, based upon the tone of voice and content of his other comments, Kevin didn't mean that the children of Boston will get delight from triumphing in a murderous manner over the cowards who committed the acts of terror yesterday.
No, what I think he meant was that a resilient, free, law abiding, civilized, tolerant, peace loving people, such as are those who live in Boston, while they certainly will bring to bear the weight of the justice system upon the guilty, they will, regardless of what the coming days bring, continue on, living life to its fullest and coming out on top because of their superior values. It is those values that fill their children lives with laughter and joy.
While those who engage in a philosophy and life of violence, who think they can destroy the abundance of those who live valiantly with good will towards all, will never find any such promise or peace regardless of the real or imagined offenses perpetrated against them, because they reap what they sow, and because they take no responsibility for their own failings and take no action to achieve their own success, they simply wallow in victimization and use it as an excuse to abuse their own people.
Loren M. Lambert © April 16, 2013
Although it is perilous to pretend to know what is in the minds' of others, I think, based upon the tone of voice and content of his other comments, Kevin didn't mean that the children of Boston will get delight from triumphing in a murderous manner over the cowards who committed the acts of terror yesterday.
No, what I think he meant was that a resilient, free, law abiding, civilized, tolerant, peace loving people, such as are those who live in Boston, while they certainly will bring to bear the weight of the justice system upon the guilty, they will, regardless of what the coming days bring, continue on, living life to its fullest and coming out on top because of their superior values. It is those values that fill their children lives with laughter and joy.
While those who engage in a philosophy and life of violence, who think they can destroy the abundance of those who live valiantly with good will towards all, will never find any such promise or peace regardless of the real or imagined offenses perpetrated against them, because they reap what they sow, and because they take no responsibility for their own failings and take no action to achieve their own success, they simply wallow in victimization and use it as an excuse to abuse their own people.
Loren M. Lambert © April 16, 2013
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