Nazis

I finished reading this weekend a book about the rivalry between the University of Texas and Texas A&M. To be fair to the book and to UT, it did mention in the middle of the book how a guy hated the Aggies on the football field, but admired their patriotism and the lives sacrificed by them for their country.

But the book ended with the game of 2001, which would be the Thanksgiving Friday after the 911 tragedy. The book raved over the Aggie-Oklahoma State game where the Aggie student body and alumni filled the entire Kyle Field, home of the Aggies, with the lower deck in blue, the middle in white, and the upper in red, from fans wearing t-shirts of those colors.

But back to the end of the book. The author was standing, at Aggie games you stand, next to a long haired, necklace wearing UT student. The Aggies call such teasippers, but this variety still looks like a left over hippie. At the half time this hippie frieked out when he saw the Aggie band march onto the field. The whole Aggie world frieks out too at such times, but in total awe of their performance. This hippie could not believe how after all these years so many Nazis still attended Texas A&M. The rest of the afternoon for him was about Nazi Aggies this and Nazi Aggies that, after zeroing in on the two thousand cadets in the stands, not to mention Parson's Mounted Cavalry, and if he only knew, probably thirty thousand easy, ex-cadets all around him.

I'll tell you what's amazing. Is anachronims like this guy still exist, even at t.u. Aggies have moved on. They don't fight the Vietnam war anymore. They're in Iraq now. Again actually. They're also the future of this country. The new trend even. They're not Nazis at all and actually they weren't during Vietnam. They serve. They give the ultimate. And yes they're still here. They never left. And they're the only reason this anachronym was still around. Nobody else would fight to keep him safe or give him the room to be an idiot.

He hasn't kept up. He didn't notice probably that even in Vietnam, these Aggies and their fellow servicemen, won every major land battle in that war, a war this guy thinks we lost, because we did lose it. And not because of Aggies, but because of guys like him, that think we lost probably every major land battle and that we lost them in Iraq too somehow, and because of Bush we're still losing them. And because of Aggies we're going to keep losing them.

He probably reads the paper and is so proud he can read and is sure Aggies can't. Why else would their be Aggie jokes. But I'll quote John Lennon. He might can read the Austin American-Statesman and the New York Times, but like those newspapers, he doesn't know that he's out and Aggies are in. Like John Lennon's quote, he might can read, but he didn't notice that the lights had changed.