I'm watching "1776." I've never seen it before. The song I just heard was called, "Momma, Look Sharp," and it's sung from the point of view of a dying soldier calling out to his mother to find him before he dies.
All those mommas. All those boys. All those boys like mine, who is 16 this year.
All those mommas just like me. Just like Cindy Sheehan.
All those boys dying in Iraq. Do they cry out for their mommas as they lie dying in some foreign desert? In the hot stinking streets of a country whose people know as little as we do about why we're there? Do they stare up at the burning, dusty sky and wonder what they are doing, dying surrounded by strangers?
All those mommas whose boys died to create this country. Those women had no vote. They voted with the lives of their sons.
And our president is using the lives of our sons to destroy what was so dearly bought with the lives of the sons of our ancestors.
We have a vote. Vote to save our sons and save our country.
Well said. I hope the voting public has some damn sense this time. And I dearly hope that it actually matters. I get shivers when Bush and those like him warn Democrats to not be too confident. Reminds me too much of the 2000 election and Bush the Elder warning not to call Florida yet - he knew there was no way it wasn't going their way.
ReplyDeleteI love 1776. I've never seen the play, but I adore the movie, even though it's supposedly not a great adaptation. I'm a sucker for stuff about Colonial times and the Revolution.I lived in Philadelphia for years, I went to Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell many, many times, and I cried every time.
Thanks, Darr. I thought it might be a bit maudlin, but it sort of flowed out that way.
ReplyDeleteSo many sacrifices have been made, and not for Bush to wreck it all.