Happy Thanksgiving/We're Living With War Everyday

Today is Thursday, 23 November 2006.

Dear Readers.

I suspect you expect from me, on Puritanical Turkey Day, a stern sermon, about how, in 1492, there were an estimated 40 million Native Americans, and how the European invasion reduced that number to less than 10 million by 1650.

But no.

And I won’t mention Nunna daul Isunyi — "the Trail Where We Cried”, the Trail of Tears, where proto-Nazi President Andy Jackson did the extermination-camp thing on 4,000+ Cherokee…

Well, I did sneak that in, but … how about some Neil Young?

LIVING WITH WAR

I'm living with war everyday
I'm living with war in my heart everyday
I'm living with war right now

And when the dawn breaks I see my fellow man
And on the flat-screen we kill and we're killed again
And when the night falls,

I pray for peace
Try to remember peace
I join the multitudes

I raise my hand in peace
I never bow to the laws of the thought police

I take a holy vow
To never kill again
To never kill again

I'm living with war in my heart

I'm living with war in my heart and my mind
I'm living with war right now

Don't take no tidal wave
Don't take no mass grave
Don't take no smokin' gun
To show how the west was won

But when the curtain falls, I pray for peace

Try to remember peace

In the crowded streets
In the big hotels
In the mosques and the doors of the old museum

I take a holy vow
To never kill again

Try to remember peace

The rocket's red glare
Bombs bursting in air
Give proof through the night,
That our flag is still there

I'm living with war everyday

I'm living with war in my heart everyday

I'm living with war right now.

Eat and weep.