[ WP ] Divided we stand . United we fall .

I' like to take this opportunity to talk about the wall. 
 
 The last living symbol of life before the wall - Mr Bernard Franks - sadly passed away this week at the age of one hundred and thirty one. A quiet soul, our nation came to love him for his stories of life in the old world, his terrifying true accounts of what life back then was truly like, and how lucky we are for our life now. 
 
 Although the concepts of United Nations and Internationalism will live on in our textbooks, they will never seem so real or so confusingly vivid as they did when Bernard regailed our television sets of his life growing up before the wall, that we will always be thankful for. 
 
 But in talking about the past, I find myself compelled to talk our present. Our current nation, our current world, and why stories such as Bernards should never be forgotten so that we can remember how lucky we are to live as we do now. 
 
 The segregation and the construction of the wall is something we take for granted. The young even ask questions, why are we seperated? What else is out there? And it is our duty as their educated seniors to explain to them our motto's, and to reward their curiosity with the truth. 
 
 Because we can not help but be proud of their ignorance; for they have grown up in a world where they can worry about places they wo n't visit, and civilisations that no longer exist. They did not have to fear - as Bernard did - the destruction of the world around us, the infestation foreign locusts, the forced responsibility of a global community. They will be taught the bravery of those who constructed the segregation, the sacrifice of those who fought to preserve humanity as it collapsed in on itself. 
 
 And, if when our segregation has been fulfilled, and the last locusts fall against the concrete, they ask; what happened to all those other people? What were those walls for? Then we will have an answer ready for them. 
 
 Divided we stand, United we fall.
