Saving the children … 1

Allegorical text written by J.D. Salinger for his character, Holden Caulfield, in The Catcher in the Rye (1951):

“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around – nobody big, I mean – except me. And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff – I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be.”

_{Rest in peace, children. We are so very sorry Holden could not save you. We wish you could have been protected.}