Changing times
Some of you might remember this picture or have seen it on Vets Day or Memorial Day...Sailor kissing a nurse..
Pitts: The times they are a-changin'..
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A few days ago, a U.S. Marine returned to the States after six months in Afghanistan. Spotting his new honey among the people waiting, he rushed forward and planted an enthusiastic kiss — their first kiss, as it turns out. A friend snapped a picture and posted it on Facebook.
And all heck broke loose.
Under other circumstances, it would have been an event noteworthy only for being ordinary, a scene we've seen played out a million times. But we've never seen it like this. That's because Sgt. Brandon Morgan's "honey" is a guy named Dalan Wells and that photo of them playing same-sex tonsil hockey thus manages to simultaneously affirm and subvert a cherished bit of patriotic iconography: the returning serviceman being greeted by the one he loves.
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http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/o...in-ar-1748398/
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"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think" - Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (1857-1938)
When you are right, no one remembers;when you are wrong, no one forgets.
Thought for today.."No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit
they are wrong" - Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld, French moralist (1613-1680)
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