I'm blubbering like a baby listening to the Memorial Day concert...

...in Washington on PBS.

"God Bless America" and "This Is My Country"?

And at the other end of Pennsylvania George Bush has signed a directive making him the dictator?

What have they done? What have they done to us?

clapping along to the songs like trained monkeys.

...and it is a thrilling experience to be in such a beautiful place.

But I've never been there under the reign of George W. Bush. The damage done just hit me anew as I listened tonight.

Many of our trips to DC have been around Memorial Day and we do all the Memorial weekend things, Rolling Thunder, Arlington on Memorial Day for the ceremonies, the concert on the Capitol lawn.
We always make it a point to visit our Congress peoples both House and Senate, we even visit the ones from Missouri. We visit even if they are republicons.
The one visit to DC under bu$h's reign, we were on Capitol hill when the capitol cops told us bu$h was coming if we wanted to see him. I stood along the street with my back to the street in silent protest.
That particular Memorial Day bu$h couldn't even bring himself to attend the Memorial Day ceremonies at Arlington. If I remember he sent Wolfowitz, I was sick watching that mad man.

The Memorial Day Concert is just sad BS, lots of flag waving, lots of talk to support the troops, lots of glorifying war, and in the end, what do we get, more dead so we can have a show next year paid by the death merchants once again.

The current sacrifice is shared by so few.

SUPPORT THE TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME

Cut the BS

watching all the ceremonies honoring the dead while more troops are being killed and maimed by the hour feels so phoney.

Just the last stanza from an approprate poem:




(Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - it is sweet and right to die for your country)

All those who have served and those who have paid the price in current and past wars. Did they serve and die in vain?
Has bu$h made their sacrifice mean nothing? If we lose the freedoms these people supposedly fought to save because of the bu$h regime, did their sacrifices mean nothing?

Scary thought!

Including my uncle who left a leg in Corregidor and was haunted by memories of his imprisonment as a POW for the rest of his life.