[WhiskeyPapa]

Who shot a gun first? Yes, the secessionists shot first at Ft. Sumter. Whoop de freakin' do -- the total death toll was one poor horse.

They fired on Old Glory.

They sowed the wind and they reaped the whirlwind.

Walt

[archy]

Who shot a gun first? Yes, the secessionists shot first at Ft. Sumter. Whoop de freakin' do -- the total death toll was one poor horse.

They fired on Old Glory.

As did the forces that included U.S. federal troops under Macarthur, Eisenhower and Patton who in 1932 attacked the *Bonus Army* of veterans of the First World War and gassed them, killing children and former soldiers who still believed they'd be safe beneath Old Glory.

As the government takes greater and greater steps to legitimize its claim that it is the rightful inheritor of the US flag, it becomes more and more meaningless to more and more Americans, particularly the young, whose senses are less dulled by age and overexposure and who can smell such bovine output before they step in it. And, of course, are ever the ones called upon to die in adventures to salvage a politician's reputation or a nation's economy.

-archy-/-