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Robert Buettner Orphan's Triumph
The fifth book in the Jason Wander series, 2009
I stared where my godson was staring,
up at the Red Moon, which seemed smaller.
The Red Moon shrank in the sky, from basketball-size to melon-size.
The murmur spread to the Casuni and Tassini ranks, then to the more worldly Marini soldiers, and finally to my troops.
Overhead, the Red Moon, our key to victory, had become as tiny as a crimson pea.
Then it winked out altogether.
For our new boys, alphabetically,Evan, Grant, and Jereme
Though Father of the great victory, I was laid upon the battlefield of Mantinea, bleeding from my wounds. I commanded my soldiers to lift me up, that I might see my orphans triumph, and I bade them make a lasting peace. But I died too soon to see these things, as all soldiers do.– Epaminondas’ Lament,attributed to Xenophon, ca. 364 BC
