I was raised by my unabashedly liberal parents
who stated most explicitly that treason, spying against our country, attempting to destroy the established and constitutionally ratified norms of the country, to advocate the overthrow of the government by force or criminal action were extremely heinous crimes which merited the severest of punishments.
My mother who worked in the Philadelphia Navy Yard during WWII never uttered a word about her work as she signed a statement when hired that she would not do so for the rest of her life. My father was a four year combat veteran of the Pacific Theater and never disparaged the notion of the military even though he vehemently opposed the War in Southeast Asia. He,as I have written here before, understood the pattern of history unlike anyone I have ever met. My parents, each brilliant in his and her own way, respected the frameworks of our civilization and attempted to effect change through legitimate means.
They would have regarded the seditious, traitorous behavior of these miscreants as subhuman. On this New Years Eve, I miss them terribly.
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My dad looked at me at Xmas and said, "Hey, how are you? Are you still working for South Pacific airlines?".
Had to look up Borneo. Not far from where your dad was. It is beautiful there.
GREAT ONE! Original, too!
