Mozart's Requiem for Our Fallen Angels

by Irene Mele

Let me take you back to a dark and dismal cold day in 1791. It was December 5, 1791 to be exact. You may ask, "What was so special about that day?" This was the day Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died at the age of 35, the famous European composer. A brilliant composer dead at an untimely young age. He was commissioned to write a piece of music for a Roman Latin mass by whom we still do not know to this day. If anyone has heard this piece, they will understand the emotions behind the man, which were of loss and despair, grief and frustration, yet praises to God honoring life and mercy. He did not complete this work, being taken at an unjust time. So it was with our Kerries at the auction. They were taken at an unjust and untimely time.

"A trumpet, spreading wondrous sound through all the graves of all the lands, will drive mankind before the throne." (From the Requiem)

We grieve our fallen Kerry angels at the Rocky Comfort, MO auction, at the horrors and disregard for life. We sigh in disbelief that our fellow brothers could turn their backs on those in need and so helpless. We cry for the suffering and loss of those we could not rescue. We ask ourselves, "What must be done to disband these vipers and their snares?"

Let this be our new battlecry. Let us not forget our fallen angels, our comrades in life and love. Let us unite together to wipe out every puppy mill off the face of the earth and bring justice to the quilty and heartless. Let not our fallen angels have died in vain. Let Missouri be our new drive in life to end all greed and suffering.

The Requiem saddens the heart as this day has saddened our hearts. Mozart could hear the composition in his mind and write it down only once. He did not need to edit his work. He knew what had to be done and with fluency his passion drove him to finalize his work. We must do the same with the exact precision and finalization of our work with the same passion and vow never to waiver in our steadfastness until our one of our angels is free.

In honor of our fallen angels, may we each send them a kiss of goodbye with a tear shed for each of them and a vow to remember them in battle and upon the sweet victory to hold their names on our banners high in requiem memory and honor.