Mark wrote:
> You got the tune right, but the words are "The Battle Hymn of the
> Republic
Yes, it was. Wonder why my brain changed the title?
Best
Dave
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 1:37 AM
Subject: Re: WTC
> I'm beginning to feel the symptoms of flag sickness, which I tend to get
> when there are too many of them waving. Symptoms: nausea and an acute
> desire to move to France.
>
> You got the tune right, but the words are "The Battle Hymn of the
> Republic": "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord/ He
has
> trampled out the vinyards where the grapes of wrath are stored/ He has
> loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible quick sword/His truth is
> marching on."
>
> America as an entity seems incapable of dealing with the hopelessness of
> grief--taking action is our drug of choice, even if there's no apparent
> action to take. I would expect steady drum-beats until near the next
> congressional election, and then a lot of bloodshed from our side.
> Unfortunately, this is not hypocricy. If one is the only possible leader
> pragmatism is merely righteousness.
>
> But despite the polls almost every individual I speak to, and there's an
> unusual amount of conversation between strangers, across all the usual
> barriers, is profoundly sad rather than angry. It remains to be seen how
> much Bush and company can persuade that private response to be
relinquished
> in favor of the corporate response.
>
> Mark
>
> >
> >But language is the province of any true poet, and resistance to a
rebirth
> >of the old rhetoric of the State is essential. I was genuinely shocked
when
> >I heard the closing moments of the memorial service at St Paul's, I
thought
> >it a sick parody at first, with its apostrophising of Liberty and John
> >Brown's Body being sung by a massed choir in the background.
> >
> >To find out tonight that it was a specific request by the US govt was an
> >even further shock.
> >
> >That empty language can easily be a mask for murder.
> >
> >The unanswered question about this tragedy is why did the terrorists
become
> >terrorists? What does the US do that makes the poor of the Middle East
hate
> >them so much? What makes someone want to become a suicide-bomber?
> >
>
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