[A. Spectre]

"Violence does not spring from a vacuum. It's born out of other men's violence. It gets nurtured and it grows in a soil of prejudice and of hate and of bigotry."

Rod Serling





This quote is quite prescient in light of the current madness enveloping the GOP.

Being a huge fan of The Twilight Zone his insights of his time dovetails into what is happening right now!

Serling's time in Leyte shaped his writing and political views for the rest of his life. He saw death every day while in the Philippines, at the hands of his enemies and his allies, and through freak accidents such as that which killed another Jewish private, Melvin Levy. Levy was delivering a comic monologue for the platoon as they rested under a palm tree when a food crate was dropped from a plane above, decapitating him. Serling led the funeral services for Levy and placed a Star of David over his grave.[2]: 45  Serling later set several of his scripts in the Philippines and used the unpredictability of death as a theme in much of his writing.[2]: 46  In the 1960 Twilight Zone episode "The Purple Testament", a prologue written by Serling stated, "Infantry platoon, U.S. Army, Philippine Islands, 1945. These are the faces of the young men who fight, as if some omniscient painter had mixed a tube of oils that were at one time earth brown, dust gray, blood red, beard black, and fear—yellow white, and these men were the models. For this is the province of combat, and these are the faces of war."

His daughter Anne Sterling is very proud of her father, I wrote to her last year stating the admiration I have with her dad. I didn't expect a reply, but she wrote back with a warm "thank you."