I'm certain that Amos was just being innocently punny & anarchic. He meant, and did, no harm.



Right on, Mick & everybody. Recently I had a chance meeting with a wounded Korea veteran, laboriously riding his bike (!) to & from the convenience store. He told me of his health troubles, and his (shoddy, it sounded like to me) treatments at the local Veterans' Hospital. Also of stacking US Marine corpses like cordwood upon the frozen ground near the Chinese border half-a-century ago.

The "forgotten war". When he was very young, this old man fought for freedom and his country, against 'the *other* poor sons-of-bitches' (see, "Patton") conscripted by arguably the most egregious regime of tyrants & mass murderers in the history of the human race thus far -- a hotly-contested title, to be sure. "Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom", indeed. / And, for what? So that we can now ask Beijing to ask Pyongyang to Please give up the Nukes?? Tears came to my eyes & I shook his hand and thanked him. Then he pedaled off into the night, with his groceries in a plastic bag in the bicycle basket. / May God bless all the veterans. "And for each and every underdog soldier in the night, we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing." - Dylan