Along the highways and byways of this great land, we can find signs announcing historic sites and their connections with our country’s landmark events down through the years. Each marker tells what happened there, and when.
We are now in the midst of such a momentous time, and it is not too early to begin thinking about historic markers to set apart those places that are, even now, becoming historic sites.
The biggest pork bill in history, so we’re told, is in the “out basket” and those who passed it have staggered home to a short but well earned rest. The engine which pulls this new train is, of all things, a military appropriation bill.
The plans to celebrate this new twenty-first century approach in creative legislation include, so we are told, historic markers across the country to mark out for the traveling public the spinach and sugar beets fields and all the many other special places that needed, and got, protection under the financial wings of our military financial system.
Now comes the hardest part.
Somewhere a special task force is pulling out all stops to make sure that all of those new historic sites have those new roadside historic markers up and ready, by the time our troops come home.
The returning troops will be able to see for themselves these tokens of appreciation spread across the land.
