Memorial Day vigil Tampa '06

[jimboloco]

[Arcadia]

thanks for sharing the photos with us, jimbo!
saludos,

Arcadia

[stilltrucking]

Thank you for posting those pictures Jim.

I can't tell you why but they are a comfort to me
they restoreth my soul to still waters.

Makes me feel human again

[jimboloco]

the plain·tive mournful woman in the wheelchair with the photo of her KIA son
the looks of intense concern on the faces of the vigilers
the falling into night
taps

[Artguy]

Not to offend all my American compadres...but that flag...I just can't look at it anymore..............

[jimboloco]

it's called "political marketing,"
and suffused a poignant tone for the passers-by,
i personally es·chewed about
taking a flagg as they were passed out all round by an intense woman
(recently retired, i surmised)
a new vet for peace,
wearing fatigues and a Lt Colonel's rank,
she was very sincere and most of the other vets took one,
it made a better impression than if we were waiving the NVA flag like was done in the Vietnam Wr protest days, or upside down, again an era gone by, signs of distress all around, don't ya know we will see upside down flags again sometime, tho not this September, my next photo-op, when there will be a five-year anniversary of September 11th, at MacDilldo Air Farce Base, a tanker squadron and home of the Central Command, I will have my BUSHWHACKED sign, as I did at this vigil,
no offense to the maple leaf flag, but I personally have always preferred the Mexican flag,
the eagle and snake,

[stilltrucking]

That picture put a face on it
More eloquent than any op-ed piece in the NY Times



Granny Smith Apple Pie

I been baking a lot of pies lately. I never know when my sister/myself might pop over.

I been thinking about Crab Apples for my next one. I heard they make delicious pies.

keep on trucking jimboloco

[jimboloco]

you never know where one of these threads will go oh
but i sent the url adress for this thread out to many locl anti=war afficionados
and a few farther away
so
i retain the initial sincerity
of the group
vigiling there
they were vigiling
and i got to join them
see you there again some time
in september,
taps
for mother earth and humble pie
all around.

[stilltrucking]

the old man with the white cap
walking the walk

.. As american as apple pie.
.

I am certified jimbo, you know that. Courtesy of my selective service board back in baltimer in the year of 1962


your 4f hippie conscientious objector Friend.

[jimboloco]

we are always opening each other up to new dimensions