Ron, I know what you're saying has some merit. But the passing of time and the coming of a new generation intent on making their individualized mark (with big bucks corporate backing), can and often does, dumb things down to the extent that with our music, or with this war in Iraq and Afghanistan, hormone loaded guys and gals leap headlong in---sometimes with sad results. Folk music isn't life or death like war is, but it is still disheartening to watch things be diminished this way.

And often it is truly because they just didn't know what went down before. That's why I used" They know not what they do!" on this Easter night. --------- To extend the metaphor, I'm sure it was a rude awakening for uniformed children with rifles to endure the Iraqi realities.

Art