![]() The memorial center is located on Stauffenbergstrasse and opens onto the quadrangle where Stauffenberg and his comrades were shot as enemies of the state. In Berlin today, there’s a museum called the German Resistance Memorial Center that celebrates Strauffenberg and every other Nazi resister from 1933 to 1945.Ībby, tell me: Can a person be a hero, be without sin, for killing another for ideological reasons? He himself helped with the cause on April 30, 1945.Īfter the failed assassination, Stauffenberg and three comrades were arrested they were shot dead before the next day’s sun rose. Stauffenberg had tried it before but something always happened and Hitler went unscathed. While Hitler was meeting with his staff, Stauffenberg slid a suitcase under the table packed with a bomb it went off and three officers were killed the thickness of an oak table saved Hitler from demise. On July 20, 1944, he became world-famous after he tried to kill Hitler with a bomb. The Stauffenberg who Lindsey Graham mentioned was Claus von Stauffenberg, an officer in the German army during World War II. Whitman’s America is what Norman Brown means by Love’s Body, a collective soul that burns so bright with kindness that it treats its least as the very best - without resentment. We drew around together, on our chairs, in the dimly-lighted room, and after interchanging the few magnetic remarks that show people it is well for them to be together, they told me stories of country life and adventures, &c., away up there in the Northeast.” “One Sunday night, in a ward in the South Building,” he tells us, “I spent one of the most agreeable evenings of my life amid such a group of seven convalescent young soldiers of a Maine regiment. Like a good shepherd, he never sought a nickel in return. Like a teddy bear, he hugged the men he gave them kisses on the cheek, he called it manly love. Nowhere does Whitman encourage the fox to enter the hen house.Īnd he never called for civil war the way the past president of the United States keeps doing - he was in a civil war, and heartbroken that America was resolving her differences with one side shooting the other down.Īnd though he was 41 when the war began, Walt signed on as a nurse he went into hospitals and talked to soldiers who’d lost an arm or a leg he wrote letters home for them - some to a sweetheart - and gave absolution to those tortured by guilt for having killed a soul from the next county over. Telling the world that his “Leaves of Grass” is the true heart of America, a benevolent sovereign that takes into account the needs of the very least (without resentment). In the poem, he tells the leaders of the world, “I heard that you ask’d for something to prove this puzzle, the New World,/And to define America, her athletic Democracy / Therefore I send you my poems, that you behold in them what you wanted.” ![]() In his poem “To Foreign Lands” Whitman does not ask a foreign power to intervene in America’s future but points to her vibrancy as an “athletic democracy.” How different was Walt Whitman’s America - he called it a “Body Electric” - the converse of the dystopian virus infecting America’s heart today. Such pleas are acts of treason in that leaders of a sovereign nation are asking citizens of another sovereign nation to intervene in a nation’s future, to transgress the geo-political-cultural boundaries that allow a nation-state to be a sovereign. He was clearly aping: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you find the 30,000 emails that are missing.” The next day he was back at it: “I’m begging you in Russia … you need to step to the plate and take this guy out.” On Twitter he posted, “Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a successful Stauffenberg in the Russian army?” Not long after Russia started bombing Ukraine, the senior United States senator from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham, offered a solution. His black eyes reach down to Dante’s inferno. I listen to what pundits say they say the head of Russia is crazy, that he’s an old-time ideologue lost in a world where he projects himself and Russia as beneficent beings on the world stage when in fact, Abby, he neutralizes people who oppose him and shows little regard for the quality-of-life needs of the average Russian Russia is close to a failed state. Ukraine’s cities are boulevards of sunken ash. ![]() DEAR ABBY: I need advice and I need it now I’m besieged on all sides.įirst of all, every time I turn the TV on, I see Ukrainian families blown to bits, some while sitting in the kitchen drinking tea with friends. ![]()
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