Asymmetric Military

I was settling in for a nice afternoon of surfing and listening to music when my conscience panged. "It was Memorial Day and I should do something besides blog about it, action being twice as valuable as thought (unless you're Plato or something). Besides, I have my paternal responsibilities, examples to give, etc.."

I looked on the internet and saw that Canoga Park in the Valley above Los Angeles was having a parade and decided to attend.

It's nice to see that a couple thousand of my fellow citizens and another couple thousand potential citizens (Both the crowd and the marchers were demographically representative of Los Angeles.) out of 10,000,000 can make it to one of these events. It was a good effort by those involved and I appreciate that people take time to plan these things.

Mexican cowboys with the American flag on parade.

I forgive Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa his ineffectiveness on this day as he extends his hand to me.

American Cowboys

With Wikipedia, it's now impossible not to know something, but at first look, I wondered what Shriners were all about.