buy original provigil online My father (who was a Roman Catholic priest) preached in the Church of the Most Precious Blood, Long Island City, on Palm Sunday, April 7, 1968. Here is how his sermon began:
buy prednisone from canada “With the report of a Remington 30.06 we have written another tragic solution to a history filled with violence. The assassination of President Kennedy should have told us something. There should have been a lesson for this nation. We, obviously, have not learned it.
“When I heard the news on Thursday night, for the first time in my life I was ashamed to be an American. On Friday as I listened to the reaction of the people, people who looked like me, who came from the same background, I was appalled. They all talked of looting, the crime in Harlem and throughout Negro communities, the fires. Nobody talked of a man who had been shot to death, a man who was a prophet in his own time. He suffered the fate of all the Old Testament prophets. Death at the hands of his own people. This is the point. This is what is important, not the looting, not the fires. Do we shoot down our public conscience because we do not like what we hear? Are we so small and so insecure that we are afraid of a man whose life is dedicated to peace?
“This nation is in deep trouble. It is in danger of civil war, insurrection, fratricide.”
In 52 years, how much has changed?
I do not know whether this is a kind of fifty year cycle that humans must go through, or if there is something in particular about the Baby Boomers and their leadership which means we must replay the cultural wars of the 1960s, to make them feel that all is right with the world. It was no surprise to me that Trump, when he proclaimed, “When the looting starts, the shooting starts” was borrowing a line from the 1960s. It is as if he had treasured up the line for half a century, hoping to have a moment such as this to use it for. I had my father’s old files stored up too, I suppose, a little treasure-chest of what living wisdom he got from his own era; different people, living at the same time, drawing different lessons from the same events.
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