There is Death and Near-Death all around me and all around US . In the Ancient of Olden Times I recall my Dad reading the Obits to my Mom every day before supper . He and his noteworthies* were at 'that Age' -- I am now -- 'at that Age'. In the Same Way that noteworthies were dying off, the Nightly News was broadcasting the Kill Numbers of the Viet-Nam* War . I believe it was different for him, he had "gone through" WW II and the Korean War and had considered them as Victories for America ,, so the War in Viet-Nam was simply 'one more' in which America would Prevail .
My Generation has known nothing BUT War --- Viet-Nam, Irag, Afghanistan, and now Israel and Ukraine .
The fetid Stench of Death permeates EVERY aspect of our Lives --- everywhere we turn there is the now Perverse Absurdity of War and the Political CORRUPTION which IS its Foundation .
Everyday we are tortured with Jim Morrison's Proclamation of Inevitability : "No-one here gets out alive."
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