Toward the end of Sunday service, the minister asked, How many of you have forgiven your enemies? 80% held up their hands.

The minister then repeated his question. All responded this time, except one small elderly lady. Mrs. Neely, are you not willing to forgive your enemies?
'I don't have any' she replied, smiling sweetly.

Mrs. Neely, that is very unusual. How old are you? Ninety-eight.. she replied.

Oh, Mrs. Neely, would you please come down in front and tell us all how a person can live ninety-eight years and not have an enemy in the world?

The little sweetheart of a lady tottered down the aisle faced the congregation, and said:




I outlived the bitches!

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I

Happy are men who yet before they are killed
Can let their veins run cold.
Whom no compassion fleers
Or makes their feet
Sore on the alleys cobbled with their brothers.
The front line withers,
But they are troops who fade, not flowers
For poets' tearful fooling:
Men, gaps for filling
Losses who might have fought
Longer; but no one bothers.

II

And some cease feeling
Even themselves or for themselves.
Dullness best solves
The tease and doubt of shelling,
And Chance's strange arithmetic
Comes simpler than the reckoning of their shilling.
They keep no check on Armies' decimation.

III

Happy are these who lose imagination:
They have enough to carry with ammunition.
Their spirit drags no pack.
Their old wounds save with cold can not more ache.
Having seen all things red,
Their eyes are rid
Of the hurt of the colour of blood for ever.
And terror's first constriction over,
Their hearts remain small drawn.
Their senses in some scorching cautery of battle
Now long since ironed,
Can laugh among the dying, unconcerned.

IV

Happy the soldier home, with not a notion
How somewhere, every dawn, some men attack,
And many sighs are drained.
Happy the lad whose mind was never trained:
His days are worth forgetting more than not.
He sings along the march
Which we march taciturn, because of dusk,
The long, forlorn, relentless trend
From larger day to huger night.

V

We wise, who with a thought besmirch
Blood over all our soul,
How should we see our task
But through his blunt and lashless eyes?
Alive, he is not vital overmuch;
Dying, not mortal overmuch;
Nor sad, nor proud,
Nor curious at all.
He cannot tell
Old men's placidity from his.

VI

But cursed are dullards whom no cannon stuns,
That they should be as stones.
Wretched are they, and mean
With paucity that never was simplicity.
By choice they made themselves immune
To pity and whatever mourns in man
Before the last sea and the hapless stars;
Whatever mourns when many leave these shores;
Whatever shares
The eternal reciprocity of tears.


-- Wilfred Owen

Tags: war

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History: June 1, 2006 - July 21, 2008

Postcards Received: Blue- Total distance: 955,282 Kms (593,585 miles)


Postcards Sent: Red- Total distance: 942,975 Kms (585,937 miles)


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How's this for patriotism?? I don't know how accurate it is but very interesting.

Democrats:

Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71.

David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72.

Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72.

Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam Jan. 1971 as an army journalist in 20th Engineer Brigade.

Bob Kerrey: Lt. j.g. Navy 1966-69; Medal of Honor, Vietnam.

Daniel Inouye: Army 1943-47; Medal of Honor, WWII.

John Kerry: Lt., Navy 1966-70; Silver Star, Bronze Star with Combat V.

Purple Hearts:

Charles Rangel: Staff Sgt., Army 1948-52; Bronze Star, Korea.
Max Cleland: Captain, Army 1965-68; Silver Star & Bronze Star,
Vietnam. Paraplegic from war injuries. Served in Congress.
Ted Kennedy: Army, 1951-53.
Tom Harkin: Lt., Navy, 1962-67; Naval Reserve, 1968-74.
Jack Reed: Army Ranger, 1971-1979; Captain, Army Reserve 1979-91.
Fritz Hollings: Army officer in WWII; Bronze Star and seven
campaign.

Ribbons:

Leonard Boswell: Lt. Col., Army 1956-76; Vietnam, DFCs, Bronze
Stars,and Soldier's Medal.
Pete Peterson: Air Force Captain, POW. Purple Heart, Silver Star
and Legion of Merit.
Mike Thompson: Staff sergeant, 173rd Airborne, Purple Heart.
Bill McBride: Candidate for Fla. Governor. Marine in Vietnam;
Bronze Star with Combat V.
Gray Davis: Army Captain in Vietnam, Bronze Star.
Pete Stark: Air Force 1955-57
Chuck Robb: Vietnam
Howell Heflin: Silver Star
George McGovern: Silver Star & DFC during WWII.
Bill Clinton: Did not serve. Student deferments. Entered draft but
received #311.
Jimmy Carter: Seven years in the Navy.
Walter Mondale: Army 1951-1953
John Glenn: WWII and Korea; six DFCs and AirMedal with 18 Clusters.
Tom Lantos: Served in Hungarian underground in WWII. Saved by Raoul Wallenberg.


Republicans -- and these are the guys sending people to war:

Dick Cheney: did not serve. Several deferments, the last by marriage.

Dennis Hastert: did not serve.

Tom Delay: did not serve.

Roy Blunt: did not serve.

Bill Frist: did not serve.

Mitch McConnell: did not serve.

Rick Santorum: did not serve.

Trent Lott: did not serve.

John Ashcroft: did not serve. Seven deferments to teach business.

Jeb Bush: did not serve.

Karl Rove: did not serve.

Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. "Bad knee." The man who attacked Max Cleland's patriotism.

Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve.

Vin Weber: did not serve.

Richard Perle: did not serve.

Douglas Feith: did not serve.

Eliot Abrams: did not serve.

Richard Shelby: did not serve.

Jon! Kyl: did not serve.

Tim Hutchison: did not serve.

Christopher Cox: did not serve.

Newt Gingrich: did not serve.

Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as flight instructor.

George W. Bush: failed to complete his six-year National Guard; got assigned to Alabama so he could campaign for family friend running for U.S. Senate; failed to show up for required medical exam, disappeared from duty.

Ronald Reagan: due to poor eyesight, served in a non- combat role making movies.

Bob Dornan: Consciously enlisted after fighting was over in Korea.

Phil Gramm: did not serve.

John McCain: Vietnam POW, Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart and distinguished Flying Cross.

Dana Rohrabacher: did not serve.

John M. McHugh: did not serve.

JC Watts: did not serve.

Jack Kemp: did not serve. "Knee problem, although continued in NFL for 8 years as quarterback.

Dan Quayle: Journalism unit of the Indiana National Guard.

Rudy Giuliani: did not serve.

George Pataki: did not serve.

Spencer Abraham: did not serve.

John Engler: did not serve.

Lindsey Graham: National Guard lawyer.

Arnold Schwarzenegger: AWOL from Austrian army base.

Pundits & Preachers

Sean Hannity: did not serve.
Rush Limbaugh: did not serve (4-F with a 'pilonidal cyst.')
Bill O'Reilly: did not serve.
Michael Savage: did not serve.
George Will: did not serve.
Chris Matthews: did not serve.
Paul Gigot: did not serve.
Bill Bennett: did not serve.
Pat Buchanan: did not serve.
John Wayne: did not serve.
Bill Kristol: did not serve.
Kenneth Starr: did not serve.
Antonin Scalia: did not serve.
Clarence Thomas: did not serve.
Ralph Reed: did not serve.
Michael Medved: did not serve.
Charlie Daniels: did not serve.
Ted Nugent: did not serve. He only shoots at things that don't shoot back.

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*47*

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Act 1

Through rings of clouds our hemisphere
loopholes loop-d-loops rabbit hoops n'
ice cold beer!
A rag time dizzy lizzie hair on top
all the spines are frizzy!
Whoop n' holler make me jumbo
gotta pick up steam n' it ain't no
mumbo!
Jack n' jeepers you slick them peepers
whacked out in december's red sleepers!
Feet tied up in shiny boots aw give
me some shine n' a few more hoots!
Wall to wall the carpet sweepin'
listen to your mama hear her weepin'!
No time to jive just shuck it out, open
that mouth wag your tongue, let out
a shout !
Steppin' through flamin' hoola-hoops
jumpin' through a ring or two!
Don't ask me I never knew, who was
who n' who was you!

-Carol ©


Act 2

Flashlight the past night neon wine,
backlight the black night,
be on time!
Ricochet bric-a-brac blackjack rick'll say
pack back the knick knacks in the back pack!
Roll on the rope-a-dope
ping-pong player,
rest up and hope for the ding-dong slayer!
Holiday fat trap chick flick the mystic
rinky-dink pink slip lipstick
Dodge the hodge-podge claptrap muscle,
pooh-pooh the slackback honeybear hustle!
Rustle up the sea fare, cuddle up to me there
plus with the 90 proof,
we don't care!
no time to shout just twist your frame, open
those legs bend your knees, and sing
my name!
Shoo-shoo the flies don't bother us
choo-choo the train but take the bus!
Don't ask me I never knew, who was
who n' who was you!

-Martin ©


Act 3

Dippity-diggy n' foxhole too,
a six pack of love just for you!
Poppin' caps n' jumpin' beans,
let me see what's under your jeans!
Slippin sly the bumble bee
stinger's sting n' ecstasy!
Lookie here lookie there,
you ain't wearin' underwear!
Drop that slack n' give me four,
flip the coin I'll give you more!
Sneakin' out the back feelin' fine
limpin' down the valentine!
Walk the walk don't try to talk,
the bird of prey, it's gotta' squawk!
Tootsie pops the curtain drops,
time to plow n' reap them crops!
Don't ask me, I never knew, who was
who n' who was you!

-Carol ©


Act 4

Whipper snapper wise guys splish the splash
tex mex the french fries mish the mash
Tip top the ship shape hanky pank bean frank
wishy wash goldfish think tank
Flim flam the hee haw flip flop seller
bam bam the box of the hip hop yeller
Study this in slow mo then you dance a go-go
trip to the tic then tac the toe!
Stop drop and roll for the tom tom boogie
tick tock the stock on the wall street woogie
Hoochie coochie hoo hoo creepin out the tu tu
ants in my pants came out my shoe!
Backtrack the bit on the pants pizazz
unzip and whip out the razzmatazz
Dilly dally paw paw
patchin' up the see saw
put that back or I'm tellin' maw!
Don't ask me I never knew
who was who, wait, it was you!

-Martin ©

© Original concept by Carol Brown
Yahoo poetry club
Romance In A Beat Up Chevy
Year 2000

Tags: acts 1-4