Flag flop

I'm not the swiftest horse in the race sometimes, so it's not really surprisng it took me a while to figure out why the flags around town (including at the Leg building) were spending so much tme at half staff. But it seems everytime some poor fucker buys the farm in Afghanistan, the flags go down. Which is mor ethana little strange to me given that the Tories keep telling us that we're at war, and that casualties are to be expected. Well, if we're at war, then why continue to treat every death as some great national tragedy? Canada lost 900 men in one morning in Dieppe. That's war. Sending the flags up and down like a yo-yo show show out of touch we've become. All I'm saying is, let's save these symbolic gestures, no matter how empty, for real national tragedies.