At 05:01 PM 3/14/2003 -0800, Melissa Reese wrote: ><snip a bunch> >I can paddle for peace, and you can paddle for war if you wish. At the >end of the day, we can break bread together and hope for the >best...come what may. > >-- >Melissa >*************************************************************************** Melissa, With all due respect (and I mean that with all sincerity) this is exactly where we part company. Except for the breaking bread at the end of the day part. ;-) Nobody I know, that is in a reasonably sane state of mind, would "paddle for war", particularly those of us who have been involved in them. That is the sort of rhetoric that the peace marchers and "paddlers" would like the uninformed to believe, and you have just propagated that belief with your post as well. We may paddle to support our troops and some may even paddle to promote the current administration's agenda, but not for war. As been said here a couple of times, the paddle that was promoted isn't a paddle event, it is an anti-war protest, part of which may take place in kayaks. Rhetoric has it's place, but I certainly don't believe paddlewise is the appropriate forum. Good paddling to ya in any event. ;-) Dave G. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Mar 14 2003 - 18:44:01 PST
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