A confusing thing has happened, somewhere between 1918 and 2009. What used to be Armistice Day, a celebration of a treaty to end killing in Western Europe, signed for the most part by the same rich, smug bastards who sent other people’s kids off to die four years earlier, has been transformed into Veteran’s Day, [...]
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Armistice Day
Posted in Uncategorized on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I Hear America Singing
Posted in Uncategorized on November 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Reflections on patriotism are always puzzling for me – take, for example, Whitman; as a gay man, he was excluded from American society and condemned by the religious beliefs of the majority of the population. Yet the sonofabitch loved America. How do you square that? Semantic debates aside, the guy was all about a whole [...]
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