Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Sick people. Not the best of things I’ve seen on your blog, but certainly one of the most revealing and poignant (sp?). Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
Sick people.
Dan,
What makes this image more powerful is that the exempt-media (H/T to Captain Ed) leads our soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen this is the way EVERYONE back home feels.
Clearly this is a prime example of Lenin’s concept of ‘useful idiots’.
Reminds me of another war, another time.
In fact, Zombie may have caught on film remnants of the that part of a generation for whom their greatest accomplishment was being involved in war protest and who are trying to recapture their youth.
How very sad that they remain in the same spot.
Tens of millions are learning to enjoy the fruits of freedom paid for by the very people they dishonor with their shabby commemoration.
Zerodian buffoons….
Eagle 1,
Judging by the age of most of the protesters, I see what you’re getting at.
A few years ago, I flew back to CONUS for my grandfather’s funeral. Graveside, three of us folded the flag that draped over his coffin.
Undoubtedly, a serious and somber occasion. Photos of us during the ceremony were as respectful, as one would imagine.
Post ceremony, though, a few folks took pictures of me in my crackerjacks, and I had a smirk not much better than this clown’s.
Perhaps it’s ingrained behavior to smile at a camera, no matter the situation, no matter how forced.
(I do recognize, though, there are certainly other photos via Malkin’s link of folks having way too much fun.)
Last hurrah of the sixties has beens.