<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><i class="">To my granddaughters who visited the Holocaust</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><i class="">Museum on the day of the burial of Yitzhak Rabin</i></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Now you know the worst</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">we humans have to know</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">about ourselves, and I am sorry,</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">for I know that you will be afraid.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">To those of our bodies given</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">without pity to be burned, I know</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">there is no answer</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">but loving one another,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">even our enemies, and this is hard.</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">But remember:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">when a man of war becomes a man of peace,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">he gives a light, divine</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">though it is also human.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">When a man of peace is killed</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">by a man of war, he gives a light.</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">You do not have to walk in darkness.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">If you will have the courage for love,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">you may walk in light. It will be</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">the light of those who have suffered</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">for peace. It will be</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">your light.</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Wendell Berry</div></div></body></html>