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Kris's avatar

This post really hit home for me. First, the ex-hippies turned war cheerleaders...I experienced that up close and personal. It was when the Gulf War I propaganda was being ratcheted up, that I woke up. I was a youth of 19 during the Iran crisis, and in 1990 I realized that we were being presented with another boogyman in a turban. My boyfriend was an ex radical anti-war protester, and he swallowed it all. He laughed with glee when the Iraqis were hit by the energy beam and called them cowards. I wasn't buying the story. We argued ...and kept arguing for the next seven years, because we held no beliefs in common. I should have walked away then.

The cop harassment leaves me scratching my head. I am about as clean-cut as you get...I would say the word "bland" fits me well...yet I have been hassled to death by cops in my car and on my bicycle. Once at a traffic light I saw a cop car, so I turned on my bike light. The sun had not yet set, but I had come to fear cops...so to be on the safe side ...well that cop followed me for a half mile and then turned on his lights. When I asked him why he stopped me, he said "when you turned on your light I thought you were hiding something". Another cop pulled me over as I drove to work at 4am. for driving too slow...which I was doing purposely to avoid cops. His excuse was that my slow driving was a danger to other drivers...on a deserted road with a passing lane?

I have always thought that parents of disabled children are the biggest heros of all. My dad died of the vax last January and left an estate of four million...but he was a chronic complainer. I used to remind him of how fortunate he was that his five children grew up with robust good health...and point out families we knew struggling with a sick child.

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Dan's avatar

I'd say you're pretty much dead on here. I observe Memorial Day to remember family members and friends who are gone and just ignore all the military crap.

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