Better far— from all I see—
To die fighting to be free
What more fitting end could be?
Better far that I should go
Standing here against the foe
Is the sweeter death to know
Better for my fight to wage
Now while my blood boils with rage
Less it cool with ancient age
Better now that I say my sooth
I’m gonna die demanding Truth
While I’m still akin to youth
Better now than later on
Now that fear of death is gone
Never mind another dawn.
“For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads, ‘We came in peace for all Mankind.’ As the United States was dropping seven and a half megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock.”
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