A FEW OF THIS MORNING'S PHOTOS

I couldn't quite pull things together today so I will give it another whirl tomorrow.  However, I will leave you with a few of this morning's photos..........

Al's Music Box:)) Fortunate Son is a song by the American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released on the band's fourth studio album, Willy and the Poor Boys in October 1969. It was previously released as a single, together with "Down on the Corner", in September 1969.  It soon became a Vietnam anti-war movement anthem and an expressive symbol of the counterculture's opposition to U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War and solidarity with the soldiers fighting it. The song has been featured extensively in pop culture depictions of the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement.The song reached number 14 on   the United States charts on November 22, 1969. It won the RIA Gold Disc award in December 1970.  Pitchfork Media placed it at number 17 on its list of "The 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s".  Rolling Stone placed it at number 99 on its "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list in 2004 and 2010; it was moved down to number 227 in the 2020 edition. In 2013, the song was added to the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."  The song, released during the peak period of the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, is not explicit in its criticism of that war in particular, rather, it "speaks more to the unfairness of class than war itself," and the children of the wealthy being able to avoid the draft, according to its author, John Fogery. "It's the old saying about rich men making war and poor men having to fight them."   In 2015, while on the television show The Voice, he also said:  The thoughts behind this song—it was a lot of anger. So it was the Vietnam War going on. Now I was drafted and they're making me fight, and no one has actually defined why. So this was all boiling inside of me and I sat down on the edge of my bed and out came "It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no senator's son!" You know, it took about 20 minutes to write the song.  According to his 2015 memoir, Fogerty was thinking about David Eisenhower, the grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who married Julie Nixon after he escorted her at the International Debutante Ball, the daughter of then-President-elect Richard Nixon 1968, when he wrote "Fortunate Son". Eisenhower spent three years in the military, most of it as an officer aboard the USS Albany in the Mediterranean Sea.  "Fortunate Son" wasn't really inspired by any one event. Julie Nixon was dating David Eisenhower. You'd hear about the son of this senator or that congressman who was given a deferment from the military or a choice position in the military. They seemed privileged and whether they liked it or not, these people were symbolic in the sense that they weren't being touched by what their parents were doing. They weren't being affected like the rest of us.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Harry was finally a groom and was very excited about his upcoming marriage.  He was on his way out of the office when his boss came over to him with an outstretched hand,  "Congratulations Harry! I just wanted to tell you I've been married for twenty-two years, and I am sure that you will always remember this day with the fondest of memories, as the happiest day of your life."  "But sir", said Harry, a little bit confused, "I'm not getting married until tomorrow!"  "Yeah, I know," said his boss.

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I was sitting on the sofa last night watching TV, when my wife from the bedroom yelled, "Do you ever get pains in the chest like someone's got a voodoo doll and they're stabbing it?" I replied, "No."  Then she asked, "How about now?

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A man realized he needed to purchase a hearing aid, but didn't want to spend a lot of money. "How much do they cost?" he asked the salesman.  "Anything from $2 to $2,000."  "Can I see the $2 model?" said the customer.  The salesman put the device around the man's neck, and said: "You just stick this button in your ear and run this little string down into your pocket."
"How does it work?" asked the customer.
"For $2, it doesn't work," said the salesman. "But when people see it on you, they'll talk louder."

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