A Caroling

Last night we attended the annual concert of the a cappella choir at Parkersburg High School. This choir travels all over the country performing and winning awards. I heard them once five years ago and couldn't wait to hear them again. They are extremely talented and it really gets you in the Chistmas spirit hearing them sing.

The one sour note for me was bringing up maybe a dozen veterans and serving officers in uniform and singing "Let There be Peace on Earth." I don't see how deploying the military brought peace to Haiti, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, or a variety of other places. One of the young veterans, in a well-decorated uniform, is the high school's ROTC officer, so the Peace on Earth song felt too much like a recruiting commercial.
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