Of course, sometimes the coming generation needs to see people going down fighting like heroes in the face of certain defeat!  Or at least, taking the hit of what seems like certain defeat, and disclosing that certain defeat isn&#39;t all it&#39;s cracked up to be...<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Terry Bergdall <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bergdall2@gmail.com" target="_blank">bergdall2@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">











<span style="font-family:Times"><span></span>&quot;To talk
of going down fighting like heroes in the face of certain defeat is not really
heroic at all, but merely a refusal to face the future. The ultimate question
for a responsible man to ask is not how he is to extricate himself heroically
from the affair, but how the coming generation is to live.&quot; <br><br></span>I believe this is from &quot;After Ten Years&quot; in Letters and Papers from Prison. Terry<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:50 AM, George Holcombe <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:geowanda@earthlink.net" target="_blank">geowanda@earthlink.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">What was that quote from Bonhoeffer a few days ago about lost causes, or going down with the ship, something like that.  I was trying to look it up and couldn&#39;t find it.<div>

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