What have we ever learned?????

Listen, children, to a story
That was written long ago,
'Bout a kingdom on a mountain
And the valley-folk below.

On the mountain was a treasure
Buried deep beneath the stone,
And the valley-people swore
They'd have it for their very own.

Go ahead and hate your neighbor,
Go ahead and cheat a friend.
Do it in the name of Heaven,
You can justify it in the end.
There won't be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgement day,
On the bloody morning after....
One tin soldier rides away.

So the people of the valley
Sent a message up the hill,
Asking for the buried treasure,
Tons of gold for which they'd kill.

Came an answer from the kingdom,
"With our brothers we will share
All the secrets of our mountain,
All the riches buried there."

Go ahead and hate your neighbor,
Go ahead and cheat a friend.
Do it in the name of Heaven,
You can justify it in the end.
There won't be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgement day,
On the bloody morning after....
One tin soldier rides away.

Now the valley cried with anger,
"Mount your horses! Draw your sword!"
And they killed the mountain-people,
So they won their just reward.

Now they stood beside the treasure,
On the mountain, dark and red.
Turned the stone and looked beneath it...
"Peace on Earth" was all it said.

Go ahead and hate your neighbor,
Go ahead and cheat a friend.
Do it in the name of Heaven,
You can justify it in the end.
There won't be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgement day,
On the bloody morning after....
One tin soldier rides away.

Go ahead and hate your neighbor,
Go ahead and cheat a friend.
Do it in the name of Heaven,
You can justify it in the end.
There won't be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgement day,
On the bloody morning after....
One tin soldier rides away.

Tomorrow it's Memorial Day and memories run deep...why the hell are we going backwards? We have the science and the technology to move into the future and yet there are groups of people that would take us back to the tenth century. What the hell people, grow the fuck up and grow a sac while your at it.

I am talking to all of you, of all stripes and beings, get a fucking grip on reality and move us forward to a world that finds peace a better alternative to the death of our young men and women for pointless causes, simply because a "higher power" seems to command it.

All I ask for this day is that we all take a long look at what we have created in our race to make the world perfectly awful ... dominion over the earth is not a licence to kill, rape, and pillage our own resources or our fellow humans.

To quote someone much more astute than I..."Give peace a chance"..John Lennon.

Take time today to remember fallen friends and those who remain unknown.Respect the price they paid for our own idiocy. And never ever give up the struggle for peace in your childrens lifetime. They are the one who will inherit the mess we leave them, not to mention all the oil that BP has given us.(sarcasm but the truth as well).

Some lessons take a lifetime to learn...Peace, Love, and Light...Tau