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I stood at Heroes Acre not as a stranger to that ground I have buried comrades before, as soldiers must. But today something troubled me deeply, and I would be a coward in uniform if I did not speak it plainly.
Death is making a habit of visiting the barracks. But it does not seem to find its way to the halls of power.
Three more of our own lowered into that sacred earth today. Good men. Decorated men. Men who gave their youth, their health, and their service to this republic men who died, we are told, of old age.The very men who marched behind those coffins today who draped the flags, who fired the salutes are older than the soldiers they buried. They were commissioned before those men joined the ranks. They drew their first salary from this country when those officers were still in secondary school.
So I ask, in all seriousness, as a man who has worn this nation's uniform for decades,.What kind of "old age" is this that kills the junior but spares the senior?What kind of natural order takes the lieutenant and leaves the general standing? What kind of mortality visits the barracks but loses its nerve at State House?
We bury our juniors. We return to offices. We reshuffle command structures. We rewrite constitutions. And now now we ask the nation to extend a term until 2030, in the name of continuity, in the name of legacy, in the name of unfinished business.
Unfinished business.
The business of the nation is never finished. That is the nature of governance. No man is irreplaceable. That is the lesson of every general who has ever been buried at Heroes' Acre they served, they sacrificed, and the republic endured beyond them.
Longevity in office is not the same as service to the nation. Refusing to leave is not the same as love of country.I served. I stepped aside. That is what soldiers do when their time comes because discipline applies to departure as much as it applies to duty.Let those who stand at Heroes' Acre take the lesson from the ground beneath their feet rather than the ambition within their chests.
Enough is enough.
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