The Daily Dread

Yesterday

Don't need a quorum
Predation of predators 
now make all the rules



takes lots of restraint
from all of us to start to
scale back the hate


it was none to bright
of me to stay all night
in bone chilling sleet


I saw no future.  
Groomed to be up to my butt 
in Nam rice paddies

1-H to 1-A 
Random sequence number was 
seventy six. Yikes 

Lucky me. The draft  
stopped a year hence thanks to those  
that went before me


Memorial Day / Decoration Day for you Civil War Vets out there 02:48 PM

In early May of this year my father would have been 119. Passed away long ago in his late 70s. One of my favorite memories was when the Right Wing  became  NAZI curious ala Blues Brother's Movie era. Some of those knuckle heads set up a little podium in a park I was playing tennis in. My friends and I went over and mocked them mercilessly until they went away. Although they tried their typical intimidation cosplay, even the Chicago Police didn't have much use for these miscreants then. Eventually they went back to the rock they crawled out from under. I told my dad, a WWII vet, when I went home and all he said was, " I wish I knew. I'd have got my gun and shot them."