askchapo

I went to my town’s memorial day parade entirely to support my kid, who was playing an instrument in the parade. It was a beautiful day and a really pure distillation of America there. Cops, fire department, a handful of veterans (some of them looking young enough to be volksturm), boomers driving ancient convertibles, lots of kids playing terrible music, and loads of fascists and liberals having a good time. A little girl asked if I wanted a flag, and I said “no thanks.” That was about as radical as I got. I thought they would all kill me if I whipped out my Palestinian flag.