[Pokey78]

A ping for our national poet.

[summer]

Thanks for the flag!

[mombonn]

Wonderful, just wonderful!

But then I am experiencing Sept. 11 not as a political event but as a spiritual event.

Against the Evil One, to be sure.

[Mudboy Slim]

"A ping for our national poet."

Yep...MUD

[WaterDragon]

How I agree with Peggy! Sitting here with tears, I think of all the decent real men I have been fortunate to know during my life. My neighbor, a policeman, my father, an assistant D.A. I worked with, and so many more. I'll never forget each of them because, as Peggy notes, they really stand out among the insolent, indifferent, self-involved wimps. I think the wimps are so terrible, such cowards, and so mean because they know they have emasculated themselves, and they have only contempt for themselves, leaving them nothing to offer others but arrogance thinly veiled as 'caring.

[Phaedrus]

. . . our national poet.

Yes!

[Irma]

I think he's in Afghanistan now, saying, with his slow swagger and simmering silence, "Yer in a whole lotta trouble now, Osama-boy."

Heh, heh, heh....love this!

Thanks for the post, Pokey and a big BUMP for the strength, guts, brains and spirit of our American men leading this country both here and overseas!

[carpio]

BTTT