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Butch
Kylemore Abbey - Ireland
Dunguire Castle - Ireland
About Me
- Butch
- I'm a married gentleman of thirty-eight years in the Pacific North West state of Washington. My professions have been in medicine as a Naprapathic physician, music performance as a principal operatic tenor and teaching applied music voice at the university level and privately along with private instrumental instruction. Since retirement from medicine, I began composing and arranging music in the Celtic-American Folk genre and did performance in Irish Celtic Music and American Folk music of which I have recently retired due to my health. My interests are eclectic and I enjoy meeting people and making friends. The musical group I was in when we were performing was Mooney Woods and Nogle and we made two CDs. The most recent released was in December of 2010.
Little Fishing Villiage by the sea.
6 comments:
We celebrate here on November 11th buddy. I have been doing family tree research recently and have found lots of family members who died in the great war and world war II. Its right we should remember as much as we can.
Mark: When I was a lad we used to celebrate ( strange word for something as solemn as this day ) Memorial Day on May 30th. People are really interested in "three-day holidays" and I think many have forgotten the meaning of this day. I think November 11th is what we call "Veteran's Day" here in the States.
I have had family members who have fought for this country from the Revolutionary War all the way to the present wars we are fighting. It seems as though we can not learn from our history and continue to sacrifice a portion of our youth to these battles. I'm a veteran from the Vietnam Conflict and there have been few wars where they could really be called a "just cause" in my opinion, especially when so many lives are lost in the process on both sides.
Armistice Day (in November) came at the end of the great World War. Memorial Day (Decoration Day) was born in the bloody wake of the American civil war. Sometimes it seems a crime we have only two days during which we are meant to remember the sacrifice of others.
Thank you for your service, Butch, my friend. Hope you had a lovely weekend.
Greg: Many thanks for your kind thoughts.
A wee story on the Civil War fallen, The North celebrated that day but the South would not. It took a later war to bring all the fallen together under one day for remembering.
(ps my Blue Columbines are blooming. I'll have some pictures up soon. )
I completely understand where your coming from buddy. Well people ever learn anything from all these terrible wars? I watch Prime Ministers question time here every Wednesday on TV. They do a quick mention of the troops from here who have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and that is it! I have a huge interest in both world wars and my interest in it has increased after finding out family members where killed in both. We never miss November 11th here. I just wish more people would stop to recognize that day and others also. I have a little video in my videos section on my blog about those killed in the war. Its people like you Butch who fought for their countries so others didn't have to. I just wish a lot of the younger generation would remember that. Your a true inspiration buddy! I am very glad to be getting to know you :-)
Mark: Thank for your input and many thanks for your kinds words.
What's amazing in the States is that many of the homophobic bigots that are against gays and lesbians serving their country have never worn the uniform themselves! Every time I hear former Vice-president Cheney speak out, I see a coward who used five deferments to stay out of the draft back in the Vietnam Conflict era. When he was asked by a reporter why he never served, his response was, " I had better things to do." He has always been a smartass and true to form, still is one.
I have nothing against anyone who could stay out of harm's way back then ( even him ) but to insult all those who were drafted or inlisted, has made me dislike him ever since.
Unfortunately, many of the "so-called" patriotic folks who lean to the conservative right always wrap themselves in the flag, with bible in one hand and continuing to play the war drum in the other. When asked why they are not in the service fighting for their country since they are the right age and are healthy, usually have some excuse and claim that being a cheerleader is enough. ;-) I guess it is this type of person who always elevates to a position of power and continues to use war as a tool before all the other options have been tried. Our own former president couldn't be bothered to do his part in Vietnam and purposely lost his flight license so he wouldn have to go. He also, went AWOL without any punishment because his father held a lot of influence ( read rich ) in government and political affairs. "Dubya" had no problem starting a war in Iraq regardless of the true intelligence data or not. He couldn't put his own arse on the line but, like Cheney, has no problem sending other parent's kids off to war, not once, but with some of them on their third or fourth tour of duty! I do hope these criminals are brought to justice. If the US becomes politically spineless, I hope the international court in Spain continues to persue them.
Now that I'm off my soapbox, I agree with you about the younger generation not really knowing what this day stands for to many, especially families who have lost a loved one in war.
If you have a moment, go back to my Memorial Day entry of last year to read what I wrote.
Again, thanks for your most kind words, they do mean a lot to me.
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