Hitchens/ Rush/ Milosevic/Adolph/ Bush/ Vond ?charm?

[Paul Mackin]

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From: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
To: "Bekah" <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
Cc: "Joseph Tracy" <brook7 at sover.net>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: Hitchens/ Rush/ Milosevic/Adolph/ Bush/ Vond ?charm?


> From her very first Rose Parade?   Is the Rose Parade a fascist thing?
> I don't think they have much military in it but there is a Grand
> Marshall and they have a lot of bands.
> ________
> tied in with the playing of the Rose Bowl game (football) (Big 10 vs
> Pac 10)?--a bit of stretch I know--can't get much better metaphor for
> war than american football, no?
>
> is there a large military presence in Pasadena (where the Rose
> Bowl/Parade are held)? or used to be?
>
> rich

As a Pasadena kid who attended the parades thoughout the thirties and early 
forties (it was like a religious obligation) there never seemed be be 
anything the least militaritic on view.

The Rose Bowl games might have  been a different matter.

America may have had military power unrivaled in the history of the world 
but military uniforms and the militrary bearing of those wearing them are 
rather unprepossessing.

During world war II military uniforms were more cute than anything else to 
impressionable young women.

To other people he's just an ordinary guy
To me he means a million other things
An ordinary fellow in the uniform I love
He wears a pair of silver wings . . .

Or something like that.