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In The Absence of Heroes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Rivers Pitt, Truthout)
Wed Aug 28 11:52:57 2013
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 11:52:55 -0400 (EDT)
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t r u t h o u t | He was a child of enormous privilege, the son of a filthy=
-rich war-profiteer industrialist. During the early part of his career, he =
helped ruin innocent people while seated at the right hand of Joe McCarthy =
and played the game of thrones next to his brother in the Oval Office with =
millions of people's lives.
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And then he suffered a great loss, and became a different man, a better man=
, and wrapped his new perspective around his enormous power and influence. =
He stared true poverty in the face, realized how evil the war he helped to =
start was, and set out to make change with the same hard-nosed zeal for whi=
ch he had become famous.
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And then someone shot him dead in a kitchen.
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You can lay a finger on dozens of moments in this country's history when fa=
te turned on its axis in a way that changed everything=E2=80=A6 and tall in=
the running for Most Important, to me, is the assassination of Robert F. K=
ennedy. He was one of them, born again as one of us. His murder is a moment=
we are still recovering from as a nation, and we will still be short of th=
at recovery for a long, long time.
=20
Where Robert Kennedy was inspired by Martin Luther King's opposition to the=
Vietnam War to take the same stance, today our leaders pay homage to Dr. K=
ing while planning air strikes against Syria. We need heroes today more tha=
n ever, but in the absence of Bobby and MLK, we must find those heroes with=
in ourselves. You and I, all of us, are the ones we have been waiting for, =
and we have been here all along.
Truthout exists to both inform and chronicle the heroic work of standing ag=
ainst war, injustice and inequality. To keep doing that, we still need to r=
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<p style="font-size: 110%;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">He was a child of enormous privilege, the son of a filthy-rich war-profiteer industrialist. During the early part of his career, he helped ruin innocent people while seated at the right hand of Joe McCarthy and played the game of thrones next to his brother in the Oval Office with millions of people's lives.<br />
 <br />
And then he suffered a great loss, and became a different man, a better man, and wrapped his new perspective around his enormous power and influence. He stared true poverty in the face, realized how evil the war he helped to start was, and set out to make change with the same hard-nosed zeal for which he had become famous.<br />
 <br />
And then someone shot him dead in a kitchen.<br />
 <br />
You can lay a finger on dozens of moments in this country's history when fate turned on its axis in a way that changed everything… and tall in the running for Most Important, to me, is the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. He was one of them, born again as one of us. His murder is a moment we are still recovering from as a nation, and we will still be short of that recovery for a long, long time.<br />
 <br />
Where Robert Kennedy was inspired by Martin Luther King's opposition to the Vietnam War to take the same stance, today our leaders pay homage to Dr. King while planning air strikes against Syria. <b>We need heroes today more than ever, but in the absence of Bobby and MLK, we must find those heroes within ourselves. </b>You and I, all of us, are the ones we have been waiting for, and we have been here all along.<br />
<br />
Truthout exists to both inform and chronicle the heroic work of standing against war, injustice and inequality. <b>To keep doing that, we still need to raise $24,000 more by the end of tomorrow. </b>Please help us in this task, so that we can help you.</p>
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