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Backstory, sidestory, photos, and media documenting the story. Available as episodes are released.
27 May 2020
"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" (it is sweet and proper to die for one's country) - Horace
3 November 2020 - Election Day
1. Providence
Providence (noun) - 1 the foreseeing care and guidance of God or nature over the creatures of the earth. 2 a manifestation of divine care or direction
14 November 2020
2. I Bought You a Horse?
"The wildest colts make the best horses." - Plutarch
10 December 2020
"Show me your horse, and I will tell you what you are." - English Proverb
18 December 2020
4. Shadows
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy
6 January 2021
5. Courage
"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor." - Aristotle
30 January 2021
"So many times a man's thoughts will waver, that it turns him back from honored paths, as false sight turns a beast, when he is afraid." - Dante Alighieri, Inferno
16 February 2021
“The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.” - Leonardo da Vinci
27 February 2021
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” - Plato
11 March 2021
“All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.” - Thomas Paine
24 March 2021
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres." - 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
12 April 2021
"And I looked and behold, a pale horse. And his name that sat on him was Death. And Hell followed with him." - Revelations 6:8
18 May 2021
14. Back from the Mouth of Hell
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro’ the jaws of Death
Back from the mouth of Hell
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
“The Charge of the Light Brigade”
31 May 2021
15. The Fighter
In the clearing stands a boxer
and a fighter by his trade
and he carries the reminders
of every glove that laid him down
and cut him till he cried out
in his anger and his shame,
"I am leaving! I am leaving!"
But the fighter still remains.
- "The Boxer", Simon and Garfunkle
18 July 2021
16. The Horse in the Arena
"It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood."
- "The Man in the Arena", Theodore Roosevelt
29 Sep 2021
17. High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth,
...
and touched the face of God.
- John Gillespie McGee Jr.
8 Nov 2021
18. Battle of Man
“Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got in."
- Sebastian Junger
3 Dec 2021
19. Fifteen Folds
“The eighth fold is for the one who entered into the Valley of the Shadow of Death, that we might see the light of day."
- U.S. Flag Folding Ceremony
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