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    Remembering a Titan

    By Jeremy | January 16, 2007

    Judah and I took the occasion of a three-day weekend to go upstate. My hope was to take him skiing for the first time. Instead, rain that began before we arrived and didn't end until after we left kept us indoors. The upside was we got to spend a lot of time talking about why he had Monday off from school. Thanks to an MP3 on my laptop, Judah was mesmerized by Dr. King's Dream speech (we listened to the last 5.5 minutes on iTunes; he quoted the "content of their character" line to mom when we got home last night). Then we watched Remember the Titans on Monday morning, a classic depiction of the struggle to integrate the first Virginia high school, and particularly its football team, in 1971. In the movie, Coach Boone, as portrayed by Denzel Washington, takes his team on an early morning run through the woods surrounding the campus of Gettysburg College, ultimately stopping at sunrise on the historic battlefield. His words in that decisive scene ring true about another Titan, whose legacy our nation paused to remember yesterday:
    "This is where they fought the battle of Gettysburg. Fifty thousand men died right here on this field, fighting the same fight that we are still fighting among ourselves today. This green field right here, painted red, bubblin' with the blood of young boys. Smoke and hot lead pouring right through their bodies. Listen to their souls, men. I killed my brother with malice in my heart. Hatred destroyed my family. You listen, and you take a lesson from the dead. If we don't come together right now on this hallowed ground, we too will be destroyed, just like they were. I don't care if you like each other or not, but you will respect each other. And maybe... I don't know, maybe we'll learn to play this game like men."
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