BigPaul, Thank you for your postings. We enjoy your postings!
A picture is worth a thousand words, so says the Western extraction of Chinese wisdoms. But, where can I come up with ten thoushand words (and the time it take to compose it) to describe your postings? Then, perhaps only you and I understand the potent and submiilinal messages behind these pictures. You can translate it to Chinese, I doubt people in this forum would get it, or care about it. So, it is between you and me, let the rumble (fun?) begins...
* These pictures suggest to me, BigPaul must be torn between the West and his old hometown-Taishen (Just like an American may be torn between the East Coast and the West Coast, Neil Diamond has a song on it). Yes, these pictures are as American, as New England, as one can imagined (Please, every people should be proud of his/her heritage, and history). This is nothing more than the American way, quite modest, in all my jugements. Salute to the dedications of the Amerian Memorial Day.
* The pictures, rob into my distant past, just leaving Taishen, and fully embracing the American way in Massachusetts, as a kid, observing and mostly be part (deserving so) of what is shown in these pictures. Is there any way to related/connect our Taishen high school experiences to the kids in these pictures on the Memorial Day? Do you get the notion that there is no right, vs wrong, at least on this discussion?
* Thes rest of Americans (non-New Enaglander), can identified these pictures are very Yankee (positive, no negative meaning here). The rest of American remember their dead/fallen heros in mostly similar way.
* What do the class78 people think of it? Is the Americans hold-on too much too their proud past? I can tell this much, if BigPaul one day retired, living in Taishen, these photos will bring a smile in his face, and bring him back to visit Massachuseets...
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