Well it must have been a good a vacation. The proof is that our ten day vacation ran into 12 days.
We did a ten mile hike at Gettysburg as part of Lex jr.’s hiking merit badge requirement for Scouts. While we were hiking, we ran across a long haired dope smoking FM type. Consistent with the stereotype, he drove VW mini-van. We first met him at the Bloody Angle, the high water mark for the South during the Civil War. He made several comments indicating he was well read on the battle.
Later we ran into him at the base of little Round Top. We said our hellos. As I walked passed his van, I noticed the rear end was plastered with stickers. There was a “W, yer fired!” sticker and several other terribly clever liberal political think pieces like “Bush sucks.” There were two that literally cracked me up. One read “NO WAR!” The other said “Support the troops – Bring them home.”
So here’s some clueless lib dope touring the one of the bloodiest battlefields in American military history with a “NO WAR!” bumper sticker on the back of his mini-van. I was thinking I ought to ask him if the Civil War should have ever been fought in the first place. Or should we just have let the South secede from the union and allow slavery to go on for another hundred years? What about WWI & II? Should we have ever gotten involved in those?
With regard to the other sticker, I guess the dope hadn’t heard the B-HO would be sending any troops coming out of Iraq to Afghanistan for a surge there. So whenever you see one of those compelling “Support troops – Bring them home” stickers, think “Support the troops – Send them to Afghanistan.”
I also saw a young lady (18-20 years old) wearing a pink blouse with a huge peace symbol on it at George Washington’s headquarters at Valley Forge, and a little girl wearing a “Stand up for Peace” t-shirt on the Battleship New Jersey. I found the juxtaposition of the words and where they were being used stunning. I finally had to conclude that these were thoughtless dopes more interested in looking cool than thinking about the inconsistencies of their “Peace” messages and where they chose to display it.
Thinking it might make me look cool, I’m thinking about putting a “Save energy” sticker on the back of my giant SUV. That makes about as much sense.
1 comment:
Great post and poignant thought lines. You still held the trump card, and that is that all the men and women that have died defending our country have made it possible for people such as these to speak their peace, no matter how illogical, emotional or brainless it is. I was just there last month and the Angle was populated by just such people as you describe. Sigh......perhaps there is still hope for the young woman. I cling to Winston Churchill's words about if you're under 40 and not a liberal, you have no heart, and if you're over 40 and not a conservative, you have no brain. Thanks.
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