american legion benefit introduction

January 23rd, 2007

Good afternoon everybody! We’re the South End String Battalion, combat seasoned and ready willin and able. The Legion asked if we wouldn’t give a rallyin cry to those of you who made it today and we said sure, inspirational speeches are our bread and butter. Which is what they said our lunch would be if we refused……

The War on Terror isn’t anything new to us South Enders. We been on minuteman alert practically since Eisenhower. We don’t talk about it much. We don’t rattle the sabers and we don’t advertise our troop strength. Let’s just say we’re prepared for Anything the enemy can throw at us.

The enemy I’m referring to, of course, is Whidbey Island. They been engaged for a quarter century with arms buildups. Navy airforce base at our doorstep, Huey helicopters rumbling by low on the horizon, E-6 Prowlers intruding on our air space, and now this X-craft comin off the assembly lines of Freeland.

Oh I know, a lot of folks say hellfire, man, they’re on OUR side. We’re all on the same team here. You ever been to an Island County Commissioner hearing? They barely even HEARD of Camano. Much less the South End. We’re just a tax base. An uppity Colony. John Dean gets over there makin waves, you’ll SEE how benign the gov’t. is. You think Iraq has sectarian strife —- wait’ll Whidbey finds out the level of Camano discontent.

Pooh pooh it all you want. All I’m sayin is we got to be Vigilant. And on the South End we are. When the tyrants of Coupeville roll in with frogmen and ground forces, don’t say we didn’t sound the alarm. Don’t say WE weren’t ready. In fact, just to give you some idea of the megatonnage of our response level, here’s a salvo. Hit em boys!!!!

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