Let me tell you this: if one day

thirty, forty years from now

you find yourself talking about this time

in history, you will say that was the start,

that was the turning point. You will say

these were the ones who made it happen,

these, the reasons, these the ones

we needed to remember. I am thinking now

of the doctor, asked why she chose to go

to do surgery where she knew she might be killed,

who said simply, This was my training, this my work.

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