Well…this is not really a political one…or it may turn into one as I get going here…we’ll see…I think I’ve done one like this the past couple of Memorial days and I still think it fits the true meaning of sacrifice for your country…but, after listening to all the crap going on at the races over the weekend and every one of the speakers talking about these service people dying to protect our “freedoms” and I really don’t think it is why they died in many cases…and I think the new “freedoms” thing is a right wing construct that they have used to usurp the true meaning and add it to their short hand of propaganda..I mean what is freedom to these people? It sure isn’t freedom for women to control their own bodies…it sure isn’t gay people having the freedom to love who they love…it sure isn’t schoolchildren having the freedom to come home alive from school…it sure isn’t the freedom for black people to not be killed by the police all over the country…and it sure isn’t the freedom to make this country a better place that the repubs have blocked at every turn…so, I call bullshit on the right…shouting freedom is only another way that they bludgeon people into being silent…they don’t care about freedom at all unless it is the freedom for the white, christian males to continue to dominate this society and run it for them and no one else. As I always do, I end with the poignant little song by Stephen Stills called “Find the cost of freedom”….”find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground…mother earth will swallow you, lay your body down” Have never found a more succinct statement on the cost of freedom…Stephen understands it…the repubs sure don’t…