St. Joseph's Day note

Today is St. Joseph’s Day. In some places it has been an occasion to wear red and parade and it is the traditional day the swallows return to Capistrano.

It was also the day when Mama D served her free dinner for the poor, although she only made it to St. Patrick’s Day this time.

But for the last six years it has also been the anniversary [U.S. time] of the American aggression in Iraq which is becoming the Twenty-first Century Viet Nam.

So rest well, Mama D and rest well, all of our unnecessary war victims [Iraqi, American, and others].

The birds will still fly.