Frazz by Jef Mallett for July 04, 2023

The war started on April 19, 1775 with the “shot heard ’round the world” at Lexington, Massachusetts.

John Lennon said:

Imagine there’s no heaven / It’s easy if you try / No hell below us / Above us only sky / Imagine all the people / Living for today… Aha-ah…

Imagine there’s no countries / It isn’t hard to do / Nothing to kill or die for / And no religion, too / Imagine all the people / Living life in peace… You…

You may say I’m a dreamer / But I’m not the only one / I hope someday you’ll join us / And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions / I wonder if you can / No need for greed or hunger / A brotherhood of man / Imagine all the people / Sharing all the world… You…

You may say I’m a dreamer / But I’m not the only one / I hope someday you’ll join us / And the world will live as one

Honor and gratitude to all who have served and those who have loved them. Prayers for the fallen and hope for the injured and those who have cared for them.

Earlier this am I found our US flag windsock hanging straight down, not a frond stirring. Normally I would say that was because of the lack of wind. Today I am wondering if it is lack of spirit, a depth of unhappiness, a bruised soul. Prayers for the country.

The Boston Massacre was 6 years earlier, and the ride of Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott was a year earlier.

Celebrate the solstices. And holidays with food.

Sounds like Caulfield hasn’t had a lot of experience with his fellow human beings. We are very nasty animals and if you got something, I want it.

Lennon was able to write and sing those words, and have millions of people hear them, and earn a ton of money for it, because of the successful wars against totalitarianism that preceded his birth by decades and centuries.

But if there’s no wars, then I can’t stand in front of my TV chanting “USA! USA!” to footage of bombs blowing up people who don’t look like me.

A sad reality of being part of the human race.

He has no understanding of true human nature.

Frazz has memorized Webster definitions in numerical order. As if he had nothing else to do.

July 4th does NOT commemorate the start of a war. On July 4 1776, the war itself had already been going on for well over a year. July 4th commemorates the Declaration of Independence of the 13 colonies from Great Britain.

I’m not scared of dyingAnd I don’t really careIf it’s peace you find in dyingWell, then let the time be nearIf it’s peace you find in dyingAnd if dying time is nearJust bundle up my coffin causeIt’s cold way down thereI hear that’s it’s cold way down thereYeah, crazy cold way down thereAnd when I die and when I’m goneThere’ll be one child bornIn this world, carry on, to carry onNow troubles are manyThey’re as deep as a wellI can swear there ain’t no heavenBut I pray there ain’t no hellSwear there ain’t no heavenAnd I pray there ain’t no hellBut I’ll never know by livingOnly by dying will tellYes, only by dying will tell, yeahOnly my dying will tellAnd when I die and when I’m goneThere’ll be one child bornIn this world to carry on, to carry onGive me my freedom for as long as I beAll I ask of the living is to have no chains on meAll I ask of living is to have no chains on meAnd all I ask of dying is to go naturallyOnly want to go naturallyHere I go, ahHey, heyHere comes the devil, right behindLook out children, here he comeHere he comeHeyDon’t want to go by the devilDon’t want to go by the demonDon’t want to go by SatanDon’t want to die uneasyJust let me go naturallyAnd when I die and when I’m dead, dead and goneThere’ll be one child bornIn our world to carry on, to carry on, yeah, yeah

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!

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There was already war.

“It has been over a year since Concord and Lexington.”

Been listening to “1776”. First time in far too long.

“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), 34th US president