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July
14, email to Dick and Theresa, Ireland
It was good to receive your email a couple of days
ago. I miss Ireland
a lot nowadays, although I’ve given up the Guinness I so loved when I was in Dublin and, in Eisenkerry,
where we met.
I have been writing lately, trying to turn my
attention to the errors of my nation. I
remember being embarrassed as we walked across Ireland
(June, 2001) when my wife and I (yes, we married) heard George W. Bush come
over to Europe for the Kyoto Accords dealing
with global warming. His answer? The wannabe Texan (he’s really a Yankee) said
“Bullshit!” to the global community by denying that there was any such thing as global warming! It was about as smart as saying that
cigarettes don’t cause cancer, but hell, Bush never was that smart. He knows some basic math, though, and is
teaching it to our whole nation:
2+2=5. Once you’ve read Orwell’s 1984, all the logic gets easy…
Anyway, Theresa, you’re the girl who said that you
didn’t believe we landed on the moon, and that it was all a PR put-up. I said no to you then, and I still believe no
is the right answer, but I have a new conspiracy theory for you, one that I
figured out as I watched T.V. I believe
every word of it. Feel free to pass it
around to any Irish media or interested friends you may know. Let me know what you think.
Who knows, when I finish my books, Mrs. May and I
will probably be back hiking along the Wicklow Way in the hills over Dublin.
PS: We married
May 1 (Mayday), 2002, and for our honeymoon we took a tandem bike trip from the
Texas Gulf
Coast to the Grand Canyon, Arizona. It was two months of adventure, and made me
think that in our Grand Canyon we have something to rival the cliffs we climbed
above the Atlantic Ocean at your Sheepshead
Peninsula. I’m still practicing my long staff though I
stupidly shattered the oak one you remember from our hikes. I’ll soon test for my second dan black
belt. Dick, happy birthday, my
friend. Many happy returns, and may we
all see one another soon.
PPS: I kissed
the Blarney Stone in Blarney
Castle. Wish me good luck as I try to be clever…
Captain May
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