Today, May 9,2023, I attended the one-year anniversary memorial for the first Ukrainian police officer who had died in the war. That’s the same officer whose body I assisted in retrieving last year and whose funeral I attended.
“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 […]
“… I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” – excerpt from the poem by Robert Frost