Old Mole: Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I know that most patriotic boasts are "conservative" material. Yankee doodle has lyrics for both the north and south, as it was sung by both.

Kendall: I would gladly give up all my rights to any funds social security "owed" me if the deduction was stopped from our (my husband's)paycheck. I think we can do better financially if we could invest the funds ourselves. We're not counting on it being there anyway.

By the way, Kendall, I am currently working on writing two songs for the sea shantey writing contest put on by Victory music. One is a nonsensical capstan shantey, the other is a ballad of the Flying Cloud (McKay's ship, not the slaver of fable). I still want to write about Navigating with potatoes. Cracks me up every time I think of it....

Margo