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redwood66|1468892377|4056939 said:Well in this case they are conservatives. In other cases they are convicts, con artists or other meanings. And your joke was not well telegraphed.
My jokes never are. I was arguing what I think logically. What I feel emotionally about the armed services is quite different. I grew up in a different era from today's era. My father, my uncle, my great-uncle (who was very close to me), and other men in my family had all served in World War II. We went to Memorial Day parades. My Great Uncle Steve was in both the American Legion and the VFW. In fact he always led the Memorial Day parade in his town and ran the American Legion Post. He spent holidays putting flags on veterans' graves. No matter what I think intellectually, I cannot stop being what I am historically. Even though my mother passed away in 2008, the photo of her cousin, George, who was killed in the navy when his ship was torpedoed, is still up in our house.
Deb