Thanks, Roger.
At 07:49 AM 3/31/2006, you wrote:
>As I get (most) of my American politics from Doonesbury (outside of
>the NYT), his current strip chimes with the "why" question.
>
>And I did like the snap, Mark.
>
>Roger
>
>On 3/30/06, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > A heard snap, & neat, Mark.
> >
> > On our TVs here, that sound is a funeral for a soldier fallen in
> > Afghanistan, a slowly growing number. Filling in for all the US ones
> > ripped away to Iraq a few years ago....
> >
> > There's a conundrumic feeling here, as we, too, support our soldiers
> > but aren't so sure abut what they are said to be doing there, or more
> > to the point, why.
> >
> > Doug
> >
> >
> > On 29-Mar-06, at 2:53 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
> >
> > > Carried on the wind, the distant skirl of pipes must mean
> > > the funeral of another Irish cop
> > > at the church three blocks away
> > > across the park. First day of
> > > Spring this year, regardless of the calendar--
> > > buds on the kinkos, purple crocuses with yellow tongues,
> > > daffodils, unkempt wisteria. The piper plays a reel.
> > > Must be a wedding. Rice. A fructifying breeze.
> > > Hello to sunlight.
> > >
> > >
> > Douglas Barbour
> > 11655 - 72 Avenue NW
> > Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
> > (780) 436 3320
> >
> > Even-
> > ing
> > will
> > come
> >
> > They
> > will
> > sew
> > the
> > Blue
> > Sail
> >
> > Ian Hamilton Finlay
> >
>
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