[bluesagewoman]

Yeah, she plays it the whole time, military tattoos, badly, endlessly, maddeningly! At least I can turn them off and not listen to it. The symbolism of the drum beating escapes me when they are the ones crabbing about us Beating the Drums of War.

[bluesagewoman]

A FReeper named "DEP" sent me a link to a tribute to a veteran from Columbia who died last month. Many folks, even in Columbia, don't realize how much our local papers despise the military, and this country. The papers rarely prints anything kind about our veterans; they refuse to put a flag on their obituary like many of the small town papers will do, or write up the fact there was an honor guard from hundreds of miles away to present the flag and 21 gun salute. DEP was kind enough to send this to us so we didn't miss another one.

(Ike)

[radu]

LOL! I have the same "art" of being able to tune things out and not hear them.

I don't understand the symbolism either. But then, I don't understand the mindset of the peaceniks in the first place.