"your mother hoping to hang that Gold Star"

[Sean Lawler]

The "gold star" refers to an award given to mothers who lost sons in the
war.  So the implication is that everyone is out to get you, even your
mother, who prefers the romanticized notion of a dead hero son to you, an
actual living son.  This passage has been on my mind a lot lately while
watching endless CNN People in the News segments about families tearfully
(cheerfully?) waving their loved ones off to war.

Sean
----- Original Message -----
From: "Abdiel OAbdiel" <abdieloabdiel at yahoo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 8:01 PM
Subject: Re: "your mother hoping to hang that Gold Star"


>
> --- "S.R. Prozak" <prozak at post.com> wrote:
> >
> > > "the chaplain, the doctor, your mother hoping to
> > hang that Gold Star....
>
> So what is she hoping for? To hang a gold star? She
> sounds rather confused, a bit frightened, a little bit
> mad, angry too, drunk a bit, a bit bitty. What's going
> on? Isn't she a bit like  Bob Dylan's John Brown's Ma?
>
>
>
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