Christopher Priest is a comic book writer among other things. He singlehandedly put the Lee and Kirby back in Black Panther (re-imagining him as one of the most dangerous men on the face of the planet, rather than as a black guy in a catsuit), and has manipulated time and space and conceptions of the superheroic more than any other mainstream American superhero writer I am aware of.
But more important than that, he gets it right on Lynch. I've said this before...it took me some time to actually embrace the concept of America, to embrace the idea of actually BEING American. About 25 years or so I think (I've got Albert Murray to thank among others). Took me until 9/11 to begin to embrace the American flag. And I had to start really thinking about where all the brothers were at before I started thinking that maybe the armed forces wasn't a bad career decision after all.
But in the wake of a war criminal using a herrenvolk democratic impulse to basically impose an American Reich on the world, in the wake of Lynch being lauded and feted while Johnson and thousands of other vets are seeing their benefits cut severely, I'm not sure how much American sentiment I'm going to be feeling on Veteran's Day.
As a veteran (Vietnam),there always been a stigma attach to American creed vs deed
Posted by: Tootsie at November 11, 2003 10:52 AM