Good blogger geeez2014 wondered in a comment kiddingly if I had stopped blogging.
Well, no, I haven’t.
But my mind is just discombobulated. It is muddled with all the ugly stuff that’s been going on in the world. It is falling apart. Our leaders have failed the world with the result being the everyday people they are supposedly protecting are the ones being killed. NOT themselves.
I don’t care if its a religious leader of any belief or a leader of a country. THEY are the ones ordering the killings when they make decisions…or shy away from making them.
But most of all, I feel our country is but a wooden ship on the high seas besieged by a mutiny while fires are burning below deck. Grave fires.
But rather than trying to express myself with words, I shall defer to cartoons. They reflect my muddled psyche. They may not parallel yours but these reflect my confused thoughts:
Lastly, a photograph of a BOY at the D-Day Commemoration holding our flag. He stood saluting the incoming waves at Omaha Beach for 90 minutes.
A peek into my muddled mind.
Masako and Spam Musubi 
Pictures speak a thousand words, Koji. Some of these cartoons take my breath away in their simplicity and truth. My only consolation comes when I’ve been watching CNN’s series on the 60s. Those, too, were dark times, and somehow, we survived a better nation.
I do agree to a point, Jan. I’m so old fashioned that I feel pre-Woodstock was a better nation. There was still order in the society but I’m sure there are millions of others who feel otherwise and strongly.
oh wow ‘entitlement’ illustration hit the nail on the head! big time, I deal with that daily sigh :-\
I’m sorry you have to deal with it daily, Andy. I know I’d be unable to cope with it.
Pretty powerful stuff Koji. Which is exactly why you should be writing.
But I didn’t write! ☺
What the comics said for you, instead of you writing, indicate that there are things you SHOULD be writing about. 😉 How about a post friend Koji?????
I’m with CHATTER!!!! xx
Whose side are you on, geeez? LOL! ☺
In your confusion you have done an outstanding job!! I’ve taken down the address for this post and passing it on!! Kudos!!
If you aren’t confused, you are a much stronger person than I !
I think all of our minds are muddled with all of the happenings too. You are not alone – we are the ones left without the lifeboats in a country that is sinking fast.
Lifeboats… I just read a passage in the “Patton Papers” a certain Black Sheep recommended… ☺
🙂
I humbly agree (even with my limited life experience compared to you and others who visit/comment on your wonderful site) that many things are seriously wrong with this world. I could rant for days about the things that are going wrong with my country, but I’ll not get on the soapbox today 😦
PS: 最後の写真、凄いですね！！
The 101st Airborne’s website reported he was a French boy. I’ve seen little else.
Wow, that’s really somethin’ 😀
Ibara-san, why don’t you get on your soapbox? ☺ How about your 自衛隊 and the significant change in their mission? 🙂
Ah yes…I’m afraid you might ban me from commenting, because I would ramble on and on and on (like the Energizer rabbit!) 🙂
イバラさんの英語はスゴイですね！兎に角電池無くなるまでいっぱい書いて下さい！
優しいお言葉をありがとうございます。恐縮です！「Energizer Bunny」は本当に大好きです（笑）それでは、お言葉に甘えてコメントいっぱい書かせて頂きますね☆
well, who knew to look down below your wonderful top post 🙂
I’m so glad you’re still here…cartoons OR writing…
These cartoons are amazing. That one of the ENTITLEMENTS soldier saying that to the other REALLY hit me HARD.
They’re all good, but I HATE what we’re doing to our military.|
We’re falling apart, Koji-San 😦
We have fallen apart, geeez… But I’m glad you still have your mind in order!
Pics can have so much meaning.
Indeed…