Title: Veteran
Author: JoleneB
Date of Completion: 13 November 2005
Category: Drabble Word of the Week -- Veteran
Warnings: Higher ideals.
Summary: Hope for the future.
Disclaimer: I do profess to my profound regret that I have no rights to Stargate SG-1 (except to enjoy). The concept and characters belong to SciFi Channel, Showtime/Viacom, MGM/UA, Double Secret Productions, Gekko Productions… ad infinitum.
Authors Notes: This sprung fully formed into my fron after reading Pat's drabble 'Heroes.' You might say I kinda did a close-up.
Veteran
O'Neill stood before the black stone wall, head bowed.
Here his dead brothers were commemorated, their lives revered for their sacrifice; so few in number.
Unlike my own brothers, who lay like a thick carpet upon many worlds, forgotten and unremembered, slaves, not heroes, to a vainglorious parasite. No stone stood in their memory; even those that could be loosely called heroic, if such a thing were possible in the achieving of such depravity.
This Tau'ri remembrance is worthy of adoption; but are there Jaffa worthy of it?
Perhaps, one day, we shall revere a warrior, a hero veteran. Someday.