...and there is a parade. I went with friends Michael....
....and Greg....
both of whom are veterans of Viet Nam.
....and then there's me, ex-Flower Child, all grown up....
It was actually a very cool parade....
Seeing as it is California, there were a lot of neat cars.....
r
There won't be too many more parades with veterans from Pearl Harbor or the Tuskeegee Airmen........
.....followed by a concert of military music (and, no, I don't think its an oxymoron, I happen to lie military music, in addition to opera and rock and roll), and fireworks, and, like everything else around here, one feels as if it all takes place on a movie set...
I am ambivalent, of course. I don't like killing, or nationalism generally speaking. But in spite of all the years in Canada, I am still a dyed-in-the-wool American, get choked when I hear the Star Spangled Banner, and still believe it is a noble experiment, gone perhaps temporarily awry, but a noble experiment nonetheless, and still way better than whatever-the-hell is in second place. And I do believe that military might is necessary, as long as we are not living in paradise.,...and maybe even then.
But all this is a philosophical conversation over a glass of scotch......,
....and Greg....
both of whom are veterans of Viet Nam.
....and then there's me, ex-Flower Child, all grown up....
It was actually a very cool parade....
Seeing as it is California, there were a lot of neat cars.....
r
There won't be too many more parades with veterans from Pearl Harbor or the Tuskeegee Airmen........
r
.....followed by a concert of military music (and, no, I don't think its an oxymoron, I happen to lie military music, in addition to opera and rock and roll), and fireworks, and, like everything else around here, one feels as if it all takes place on a movie set...
I am ambivalent, of course. I don't like killing, or nationalism generally speaking. But in spite of all the years in Canada, I am still a dyed-in-the-wool American, get choked when I hear the Star Spangled Banner, and still believe it is a noble experiment, gone perhaps temporarily awry, but a noble experiment nonetheless, and still way better than whatever-the-hell is in second place. And I do believe that military might is necessary, as long as we are not living in paradise.,...and maybe even then.
But all this is a philosophical conversation over a glass of scotch......,
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