Rough is Good

On this Memorial Day, I offer the quote below from my second favorite fiction writer -- George Orwell. (I'm citing this quote from memory. Hopefully it's true to the original; and hopefully it is from Orwell, to whom it is attributed but for which I have yet to see any proof. Oh well. . .)

"We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."