To me, anyone who wears a Che t-shirt should be told “Bummer of a birthmark, Hal!”
Well, if the Civil War is here, I say that it started Friday night when my 12 year old granddaughter, in the tradition of the soldiers in our family (Iwo Jima, VN, Iraq and Kosovo), told off a liberal woman wearing a Che Guevera t-shirt at a public family gathering place.
While my son, a veteran of Iraq, said that the woman had every right to wear the shirt, my granddaughter felt that she should ask the woman who she supported a mass murderer, a question the woman refused to address. She left.
Now grandpa’s job here is to provide my granddaughter with the books and congressional hearings on just how many people Che tortured and killed, personally. He bragged about this and reportedly his favorite tool was a hand drill.
I’ve had friends whose family members were anti-Castro fighters. They ended up being shot by Castro and Che because they were anti-communist. This is one of the stories I told my granddaughter. Also having her read books by noted Cuban journalist Humberto Fontova (whose writings appears at FR and FrontPageMagazine, Townhall, etc.
To me, anyone who wears a Che t-shirt should be asked “Why don’t you wear one of Hitler, Himmler, Eichmann or Heydrich too since you like torturers and mass murderers”?
Did my granddaughter just fire the first “reverse Fort Sumtner” shot of the new Civil War? That would also be in the family as some on my wife’s side of the family fought for the Confederacy but the major fought for the Union. At least 17 were at Gettysburg (found 17 listed on one Pennsylvania regiment monument on that battlefield.
If the civil war has begun, count my immediate family in. Collectively been defending America since the 1600’s.
Your granddaughter has every right to express her displeasure. In this case, there is no reason one freedom of expression should be sacrificed to protect the other.
What state do you live in? Unless you don’t want people to know; you can include it in your profile. Folks tend to be curious about those kind of details that help understand where a person is coming from. For instance I would suspect you live in the Carolina’s or maybe a little further south but I have no way to know without asking you.
I was just a little younger than your daughter when I accompanied my dad, on his business assignment as a oil refinery engineer to the CalTex/Texaco refinery at Santa Clara. You are welocome to tell her that a veterano of that time and place welcomes her aboard and appreciates her effort
An update to an old joke begins: An ugly woman wearing a Che Guevera T-shirt walks into a bar....
To me, anyone who wears a Che t-shirt should be told “Bummer of a birthmark, Hal!”
Indeed she does, and I'm glad she does, since it marks her for what she is.
Indeed, with any luck, she may be rolled into an unmarked grave wearing it.
We were in Spain several years back and vendors were selling Che shirts on every corner. That was the first time I realized how screwed up they were.
Your grand daughter is exactly right. God bless her - and a pox on the Che T-shirt wearing idiots and fellow-travelers of the world!