Middle School Band at
Polka Days

Today I attended the parade for Polka Days in Pulaski. My grandson was marching with the middle school band. There was also a high school band and a couple polka bands on flatbed trucks. However, most of the groups in the parade were politicians, private businesses, fire and police units and military veterans.

I consider the fire sheriff and police departments to be socialist organizations, since they are paid by the people for the safety and welfare of the people. I know people do not like to call fire and police departments ‘socialist’ but that is what they are. Now our active US Military is a socialist organization designed for our defense, but those marching today were veterans of the various wars, World War I and II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.

I could hear mothers saying to their children as the veterans passed, clap for them children since they gave us our freedom. Later in the day I challenged someone complaining about taxes on how much war cost and causes more war, but the person did not want to hear it, since ‘soldiers are fighting for our freedom.’ It was not a situation for breaking the silence about how we teach war and spend more money on war to create more war so I let it go.

The politicians and businesses were plentiful. They both operate, in my opinion, on the belief that more money is good for businesses and politicians. On the other hand the socialist organizations operate on the belief that sharing and sacrifice for the common good is more important.

As a child I attended many parades in Milwaukee. I remember the marching bands and floats as the main attraction, not the politicians and military. I did not associate waving flags with the military power of our country. I consider myself a patriot, but times change and we are now a much more military state. Now Polka days could be called Political Patriotic Polka Days.

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