2025년 9월 18일 목요일

Episode 1: The Flame of Youth – A Memory Revisited

 


Prologue: The Flame Within Silence

 

 


Over sixty years ago, 

I wore a military uniform.


That day, 

I stood before an armed deserter.


He held a rifle. 

I held only a word.


In that moment, 

I spoke:
“Private Gim,

the voice shouting through that megaphone is a lie!”


My words defied orders,
disrupted protocol,
and violated the military code.


Yet those words were not rebellion.
They were a cry from within—
a plea to preserve a man’s life.


He threw down his weapon.
He surrendered.
No blood was spilled.
No lives were lost.


I turned to the colonel and said:
“Do not bind him, please.
He came forward of his own will.”


The colonel replied curtly,
“I got it.”


That reply closed the door.
And I remained standing before it.


Since that day, 

I have asked:


When does a word become a crime?
When does silence become violence?
And when must human dignity rise above institutional order?


These questions remain unanswered.
The words I spoke still echo within me.


And 

that echo has become the rhythm of my ethical life.

 

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