People
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.
— General George S. Patton, Jr.
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
This reframes grief as gratitude. The speaker says mourning those who died is foolish and wrong, and that people should instead thank God that such men lived. The emphasis moves from the loss to the fact of their having existed, treating their lives as the thing worth marking.
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