"salt of the earth"

[SoCalDem]

When people refer to someone as "good people..salt of the earth", it's meant to be a positive comment about their character.

Warmongers have brought home to me, another meaning for "salt of the earth"..

How many buckets of blood, gallons of tears have been greedily slurped up by the soils of how many desolate places..battlefields. all of them?

No continent except Antarctica has been denied that "salt"..

The soil in which we plant our petunias, probably contains ancient "salt" residues from battles long ago..

Spilled blood, shed tears...from too many people to count..over too many years to know..

Collectively we may be gaining knowledge, but we sure don't get any smarter