Thanks! I always go to the veterans parade. It is the one parade a year I never miss. I try to make others during the year, but this one is a given. It's not a holiday where I work though. I don't get it. We get labor day but not veterans day. However, we do get the day after Thanksgiving off so I guess they switched Veterans day for that day. Obviously they are not veterans! :o)


>It was gratifying to see the civil judgment against that bunch of knuckleheads a couple of weeks ago. Picketing a funeral -- and this group was picketing the funerals of soldiers -- is about the rudest thing I can think of.
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>Speaking of soldiers, a tip of the hat to you and all our other veterans on Veteran's Day.
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>>Wow, your example of a communist funeral (hijacking it basically for political purposes) brings to mind the despicable actions of those who picket and protest at soldiers funerals. To bring politics into it at all....
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>>>>The speaker ran through the usual suspects. I am starting to despise the 23rd psalm, as beautiful as it is. He went on and on about the glories of God. Uh, was it God who died or Andy? He even managed to include what I consider the most irritating passage in the Bible, the bit about I am the way and the light and no one gets to God but through me. He was done in 15 minutes and out the door 3 minutes later.
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>>>Exactly the same hijacking of private life as a communist funeral used to be. Your friends got to say a word or two, your family too, but nobody was able to kick out the guy from The Party who had to read a referat, which was more or less an essay about the current political situation, a certain political subject, or how did any of these connect with the deceased. "You left us at this dire moment, when forces on the international scene threaten to..." and so on and so on.
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>>>The difference is the same. They all push their agenda.