Year by Year, I remind My Coward Relatives on T'giving [View All]

[louis c]

Every year at Thanksgiving dinner, we discuss contemporary issues.

I have two cousins, with military age sons, who are gung-ho on the war, but the boys never went.

Today, while eating stuffed mushrooms before the main course, and before we sat down, I told one of them, in front of the other, "I'm sorry to hear that Billy is headed to Iraq, I hope he will be safe." His reply was, "Billy's not in the service, what are you talking about?". My reply, "That's right, I forgot, you only favor the war if other people's kids get to fight it."

Everyone got the point, and they all kept their mouths shut this year, because no one wanted to debate me this year, since every prediction I've made about the war has come true.