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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#1f497d">I was inclined to think so until I recognized that they were not even <br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#1f497d">smart enough to put wheels and a collapsible handle on their luggage</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#1f497d">--why should they be when Red Caps did all that for them? Of course <br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#1f497d">my disillusionment with the Greatest doesn't change my evaluation of <br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#1f497d">the Shittiest, my deGeneration, the one that climbed </span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#1f497d"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#1f497d">with Martin <br></span></b></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#1f497d"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#1f497d">Luther King</span></b> out of the abyss to peer from the ridgetop, and then stepped</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#1f497d">back from the brink of the Promised Land to settle for cocaine and <br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#1f497d">luxury SUVs and McMansions instead of making the dream true.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#1f497d"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#1f497d">We did succeed in preventing the war against Nicaragua, and probably <br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#1f497d">we aided the liberation of South America such that US-backed torturers <br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#1f497d">can now be prosecuted in Chile and Argentina, and victims of US -backed <br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#1f497d">torturers could become presidents in Chile (Bachelet), Uruguay (Mujica) <br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#1f497d">and Brazil (da Silva and Rouseff). But Hollywood wars in Grenada and <br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#1f497d">Panama and Kuwait enable the propagandists to claim we accomplished <br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#1f497d">nothing, and that claim enabled the current crop of corrupt wars that <br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#1f497d">continue today in Bush's fourth term.</span></b></p><br><p class="MsoNormal"><br><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#1f497d"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#1f497d">Here's Professor Francis Boyle's poetic rant:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#1f497d"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#1f497d"><br></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:red">The Greatest Generation?</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">Oh really?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">If they were so great</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">Then why did they send</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">Their Sons so willingly</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">Off to die
</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">In Vietnam</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">A war they started</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">While we suffered from</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">58,000 young men</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">Of my generation</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">Were murdered
</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">By The Greatest Generation</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">Hundreds of Thousands</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">Of our Lives were destroyed</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">Plus</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#1f497d">
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red"> 3 million genocided Vietnamese</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">Not that “gooks” mattered to The Greatest Generation</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">Then neither did we their Sons
</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">Why didn’t The Greatest Generation</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">Rise up as One</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">And tell the American Empire</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">That you will not have our Sons</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1f497d"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">Over our dead bodies!</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">Hell no!</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">They will not go!</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">Why did The Greatest Generation</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">Not fight for US their Sons
</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">Against the American Empire</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">As they did against the German</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#1f497d">
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red"> and Japanese Empires</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:red">We the Sons of the Greatest Generation were not worth it</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">They said they were liberating Peoples in Foreign Lands</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">Then why did The Greatest Generation send their Sons</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">To fight and die</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">In that God-forsaken Land?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:red">And to murder millions living in their own
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:red">Land?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">Was this some blood-sport</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#1f497d"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">we had to play</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">With them as pony riders</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">and US as buzkashi goat carcasses</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">Was it reverse Freudian Oedipal Complex</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">Them killing us off</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#1f497d"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">before we got to them</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">And took their place</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">Were we blood-sacrifice to Moloch</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">With them as Priests</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">And we as sacrificial lambs</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:red"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:red">Were they our Abrahams</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:red">Actually murdering US their Isaacs</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:red">In a Holocaust</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:red">To their Genocidal Yahweh</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">Hard to say</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">What was going on</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">In the Minds of The Greatest Generation</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:red">If anything at all</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:red">Mindless Patriotism
</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:red">The last refuge of them Scoundrels!</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">They knew all about War</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">then sent their Sons marching off</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red"> Into the Valley of Death</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">Charge of the Light Brigade</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1f497d"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">The result was predictable
</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">A Decimated Generation</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:red">A Shattered Generation</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:red">MY GENERATION!</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:red">BUT WE ENDED THEIR DAMN WAR!</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">The Greatest Generation?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">Hell no!</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">A Pathetic Generation!</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1f497d"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">May they ever be tormented</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red">By Their Own Son’s Souls</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;color:red"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#1f497d">Professor Francis A. Boyle</span></u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:red"> <br></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif""> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Francis A. Boyle</span></b></p>
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