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No one will make it through Bush Jr.'s reign without being personally insulted, and that now includes Korean War veterans.

This weekend will see many memorial services around the country in honor of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Korean War armistice. A big one is scheduled on Saturday in Washington D.C. After the more somber part of the ceremony, there will be a concert for the attending vets featuring three favorite acts of the era: The Platters, The Coasters and The Drifters.

But according to Jon Newton at Gnutella News, "there's a problem. These Coasters aren't THE Coasters, and The Platters aren't THE Platters and The Drifters certainly aren't THE Drifters." (You can read the whole story here.) The official press release for the event also claims that the vets will be treated to "the sound of Motown," a label that didn't even exist during the Korean War.

In other words, these veterans will find themselves "honored" on this special day by a cheesy casino-level show by three ripoff groups that had nothing to do with any of the original hits.

Quite the tribute. Maybe the ersatz Platters should change the title of one of "their" songs that night to "Smoke Gets Up Your Ass".

P.S. Here's a good piece on the vets today and their memories of the war, and-- for the terminally bored-- here's the original press release for the event from The Department of Defense. And here's a recent piece on the disastrous economic policy of Bush & Co. that features the following paragraph:

"How will Bush pay for his 'shock and awe' tax package? The administration and Republican leadership in Congress are proposing steep cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, student loans, school lunches, child care, food stamps, homeland security, and just about every basic social and human service program. Republican leaders in Congress have taken the brutal irony to an even higher level by claiming 'patriotism' as a rationale for reducing military veterans' benefits by $14 billion in order to fund additional tax breaks to the rich. These are the same veterans who fought in the Gulf and Iraq wars. There's an old saying in Las Vegas -- where, unlike Washington, they don't change the bottom line or hide behind patriotic slogans for political convenience or advantage. It goes, 'Figures don't lie and liars figure.'

Posted by Steve Monaco at July 24, 2003 9:22 PM

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