Bruder Schweigen(vol. 1), the True Story of The Silent Brothers, 450 pages. (An Excerpt)
by Frank L. DeSilva
Word Count 3,786
[Editor’s Note: An interesting essay, Never Leave a Fallen Comrade, by Matt Parrott, prompted a discussion between myself and the Author of the work, Bruder Schweigen, in which much of the germ plasm provided by Mr. Parrott’s article, also resided in the historicity of the above work. In fact, it was Mr. Parrott’s humanitas, which prompted my request to portray some of his work, here, before a comprehensive review. Mr. DeSilva agreed, and below one will find this excerpt from the ‘Introduction’.
We encourage readers to view the excerpt, as well as view Mr. Parrott’s article. The Staff ]
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The life-story you are about to enter is true.
The characters and events existed, together, to create an unusual mosaic of adventure, courage, love, betrayal and action not seen in this nation since the ‘War between the States’ in its breadth and scope, if not also in its vision: That if men cannot be free to follow their conscience, then they must do what they can – or what they must – if they are to claim that distinction.
The term ‘Bruder Schweigen’ means Silent Brothers in the Teutonic tongue.
This term may have come from that epic Poem “Wenn alle bruder schweigen” (When all our Brothers are Silent) as a remembrance of another time, and to that ‘courage against all odds’, or it simply was something destined, something unconscious within the mind of Robert Jay Mathews, as he was well read, and most definitely knew of that epic struggle in which so many had striven for their own survival, for their own nation and, thereby, perished, unsung for the most part, yet living in eternity in the hearts and minds of those who would come after.
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