cellini's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My best moment as a human being I was thinking about that day on August 12th when I was at the top of the stairs in the middle of the riot covering it as a journalist and this armed neo-Nazi came up to me with a few of his guys behind him and he told me to leave. And I looked him right in the eye and I said, "we must each of us do our duty as we understand it." He held my gaze for a moment and then he looked away and he and his guys moved off. I was quoting Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union speech and paraphrasing Nelson's speech before the battle of Trafalgar, so no doubt the words stirred something in his warped, neo-Nazi soul. That has stuck with me for the last few years since those events. In everything that I have done, in everything that I have written since then, that was my best moment as a human being. 2:46 a.m. - 2020-07-04 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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