I’m enjoying a change to my usual Memorial Day routine.  For the past twelve years, I’ve taken a dear friend, who’s bed-ridden, from her nursing home to the parade, about a 1/4 mile push up a slight hill (not bad with a couple of teenagers helping).  This year however, due to a mix up (someone told her I was recovering from surgery when it was actually my son), she made arrangements for someone else to take her, and so I’m relaxing at home, building chicken boxes (well, at least starting), and planning on taking my sweetie out for a late lunch.

I want to publicly express my sincere gratitude to those men who have sacrificed their lives in the service of our country.  I recently read with amazement of the gentleman who will be today’s Grand Marshall in the Topsham-Brunswick Memorial Day Parade.  This man and his company of Marines, held off wave after wave of Japanese suicide attacks throughout the night, and when ammunition ran out, they threw ammo boxes and fought with their fists until the Japanese retreated. 

Compare this with the cowardly crop of men we are raising today.  I empathize with Lee Iaccoca, who wrote “Where Have All the Leaders Gone”.  Yes I know there are still many brave men and women willing to sacrifice all, and putting their lives on the line every day in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.  But I’m thinking of the recent ads I viewed from Mark Lawrence, a snake of a politician who has turned his campaign for a seat in congress into a campaign to impeach our president, and is using taxpayer funds to spew his tirade of trash. 

I shouldn’t be outraged or shocked.   I know there’s a vocal lunatic fringe calling loudly for impeachment, ending funding for the war, and generally waxing nostalgic for their 60′s demonstrations, and I consider the source.  But a call for impeachment from one desiring a seat in congress, and during a time of war is beyond outrageous!  There was a day in America when this would be called treason, and this spineless snake would be locked up until the war was over.  In fact there were at least ten cases in which defendants were tried for treason in World War II for the very acts that Lawrence has mimicked – giving aid and comfort to the enemy over the nation’s airwaves. 

Ah, but that was before Political Correctness ruled the day…<sigh>

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