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In reply to the discussion: I said this last year and it deserves repeating. We didn't fight for your freedom. [View all]johnnyreb
(915 posts)Or at least not have to fight for the basics.
Just about every year lately, we endure the PBS Memorial Day Concert with our WWII Navy nurse mom. It's on the Capitol grounds, with Colin Powell (yeah...) and other emcees, some nice music but too much music, in fact too much Feeling with absolutely no Thought. Some of the pageantry is irresistible, but even mom yells at the other half of the show. It's hard to want to feel that pride, and to want to honor the honorable without throwing up at the propaganda for the billionaires' wars. And it's pitiful how the foldout-chair audience on the lawn seems smaller each year, and the applause less enthusiastic, while the pomp is just as loud. Their website picture (click the fourth "star" shows a packed grounds with people all the way up the Capitol steps, but I don't see that on the teevee. And of course "The National Memorial Day Concert is sponsored by Lockheed Martin Corporation".