No.165072
"My dear Rica,
I stood with my head held high and without fear in front of the judgment, as I stand before the Supreme Justice. May you stand like that too!
No one in this country has served the common people with so much love, passion, and selflessness as I have. We have given them everything, from our work to our money, from our souls to our lives, without asking for anything from them. We do not ask for anything from them today either.
His passionate judgment today does not humiliate or touch us.
His judgment tomorrow will be just and will elevate us.
I am prepared to die, just as I was prepared to suffer. Just as my life, my entire life, especially in the four years of governance, has been an ordeal. Yours has also been uplifting!
Circumstances and people have not allowed us to do the good that together we so passionately wanted to do our country.
The supreme will decided otherwise.
I was a loser, there were others…, many others. After a fair trial, history put them in their place. It will put us too.
Peoples at all times and everywhere have been ungrateful. I regret nothing and do not regret anything. Let us respond to hatred with love, to goodness with comfort, to injustice with forgiveness.
My last wish is for you to live. Retire to a monastery. There you will find the peace your soul needs and the piece of bread that you can no longer pay for today.
I will ask to be buried next to my family, who were my ancestors and guides, there in Iancu Nou. I will be among those with whom I grew up and with whom I also knew pain and deprivation. Circumstances have distanced our lives from them, but my soul will never forget them. Perhaps you will think that your last resting place must also be there next to me. Descending into the grave, I today, you tomorrow, we will rise, I am sure, where the only and right reward will be.
I hold you in my arms warmly. I embrace you with love.
Not a tear!
May 31, 1946 (Jilava)
ION"
No.165075
>rika
Higurashi story happend in Romania.