Friday, May 23, 2008

The Last Fading Away

"OVER THE YEARS, I have come to believe that the soldier who sincerely nurtures in his or her heart that valiant desire to serve in defense of others, who fights not out of hatred but out of love for Peace and sacred life are those same souls endowed by the Almighty with the heart that possesses the will that redeem time and again, in the sight of God, Angels and men, the intrinsic honor of the universal profession of arms from the shame and dishonor of those disgusting agents of hell who serve naught but for war and self.

Theirs must be those noble and immortal hearts that hope in the great,
unfading hope of the one eternal Army; the great hope of the last fading away".
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O SOUL OF ARMY!
Defender of our Peace -
when in battle we weep
for those whose time has come
weep not because of anguish,
our tears are meant not for grief.
Cry not because they have fallen,
those sons and daughters of Country,
valorous souls who gave to us their utmost
and have bled their everlasting witness
to the universal mission of the eternal Army
from which all honorable armed professions
draw their great lineages of hope
Here, at the last fading away -
the quest for that one final sacrifice
the very last soldier to fall
before the breaking of the Day
in the name of Peace and Sacred Life
in a relentless war that have lasted
from the dawn of our exile time.

O Soldier of the Peace!
Noble defender of Country
You are life preserving life itself
For what is Country but life
Know you not why you respond
When duty calls you to battle?
Vague at times may reason be
Especially amidst the desolation of war
And the darkness of war's attendant evils
But forget not what you love
And forget not why you live
And none shall forget you if you fall
For in Country is your longevity
Life itself shall be your resting place
And God will forever love you
His Peace shall forever honor you
For the time you have given others
More time for building,
More time for sowing,
More time for loving,
More time for hoping,
For kinder days to come.

O when shall the wounding stop
and the healing begin!
O beloved Soul of Army
When is our last fading away?
Until mankind learns
To be better builders in peace
More than wanton destroyers in war
Until humanity learns
To value sacred life
Than seek the paths of death
Heaven and earth shall weep
with thee, O Soul of Army
But never for those whose time has come
For the lost are never lost
So we must seek them not in vain
Seek not our fallen with the dead
For life is life and death is death
So let the dead bury the dead!
Let us look for those who are triumphant
Not with the defeated enemies of the Peace
But with the living as well as the everliving
For God Himself has declared Peace over war.

It is for the oppressors of Country
And the enemy of Peace and sacred life
For whom the bell tolls
As we sing the songs of our fallen heroes
And their potent remembrance stir
In the hearts of those who yet believe
In the abode of the eternal Army
In the timeless vision of God
To bring to bear in the name of all that is life
The final wrath that is to come
And bring to pass
Our last fading away
That one final hymn of taps
At the joyful dawn of the everlasting peace
And the breaking of this midnight world.

So cry not because of the passing away
Weep for loneliness but never for sorrow
For life is life and death is death
Let us save most of our tears for those
Who yet stubbornly cling to the lie
And believe in the heart of everything that is false
Giving rise to all things that inflict evil to our poor world
And bring war and death to our suffering humanity.
For it is always for the reprobate that the bell tolls
To remind to those who sow in war what they shall reap.

"Old soldiers never die, they just fade away"
- General Douglas MacArthur

There are some things that are timeless that neither corruption nor ignorance can tarnish, such are the eternal bonds that bind nations forever who have loyal and courageous recourse to their shared honorable military remembrances.

When we find ourselves living again in such grateful times, our whole world will become a great struggle for peace in the name of all those who gave their lives to see us live through to better times.

No soldier, of any side at any age, ever fought and died with honor intact to knowingly spread the flames of war. Every noble military heart and mind of all times and places have always been fighting for our last fading away.

Among these universal military lights shine the bright example of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris whose honorable service is like a great star in the mournful darkness of those times he was called by God and Country to serve. He and many others of that time, known and known to God alone, is light enough for many to see against the long darkness of our midnight world what true nobility there exists in the glorious hearts of those who now belong to the eternal Army.

Admiral Canaris, God keep you always, may you now live today in our hope, all who stand with you in defense of peace and in service to sacred life shall never forget you until all things again are restored to us and our world is forever renewed at the very end of all these evil days.

May none who believe today forget that in eternity we are united in the one ascendant truth in the one eternal God. No longer are we separated by human words and human limits much less any kind of temporal divisions. In the everlasting vision of God, all Angels and men who live to serve life and defend the peace of this world are joined forever into the one happy society of God's elect in the unimaginable felicity of heaven as well as in the great, new, wondrous world to come, a world without war, sin, sorrow, suffering or death that God shall create for those who love Him and serve Him with righteous fear; a most beautiful place where all our friendships shall be as joys uninterrupted, a place with Jesus where all evil shall be forgotten and all our tears wiped away.

Saint Michael and the angelic hosts of the LORD, pray for us.

Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.

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