August Still Sucks

Currently Reading: Dunno yet. Something by Stephen King

I think I've mentioned before how August sucks. Here are a few more reasons . . .

Dead Elvis Day. Yes, it's true, here in Memphis folks celebrate Dead Elvis Day. This is the day when, back in 1977, Elvis died. Yee Hah, watch me celebrate.

It's actually a very big deal. Dead Elvis Day comes in the middle of Dead Elvis Week, which studies the life and death of Dead Elvis. The newspaper has recipies that Dead Elvis liked. It often has fashion stories on the clothes that Dead Elvis wore. And at some point you can always expect a sort of, "What would Dead Elvis think?" story.

You'll note, that this celebration is about DEAD Elvis, that is, the Elvis burried at the Dead Elvis Shrine (Graceland). This day is NOT for all those ALIVE Elvi who get caught on tape pumping gas in some rural town in the middle of nowhere. THOSE Elvi don't get to be a part of Dead Elvis Day until they die :-)

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Also about this time every year we talk about the final days of WWII. Mostly this means talking about the Japanese and what they did during the war vs what WE did to finish the war. And every year someone from one side or another gets up and starts appologizing or demanding an appology for what happened 60 years ago.

I look at it this way. The Japanese Imperial Army/Navy did some pretty bad things. No doubt about it. What they did in China, Korea, The Philippines, etc., was just plain horrible. It's the kind of things that only happen during a war, at least on that scale.

WE, the US of A, blew up two cities using atomic weapons. That's something they had to deal with for MANY years afterwards, lots of radiation and cancer and so forth. Very brutal. Damn shame we had to do it but we probably ended up saving more lives by doing it that way.

So, on the one hand, brutal army stuff. On the other hand, leveled two cities with atomic bombs. Seems to me we're about even. Time to let it go. No more appologies are needed at this point.

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