
I was first going to cover the story out of DeTroit, Michigan about how the under wire of a woman's battle ready armor stopped a speeding bullet in its path. Then I was going to cover how a Marks and Spencer's department store in Britain put out a campaign entitled "We Boobed" to apologize for the previous $3 handling fee attached to shopping for bras that exceeded the Double D size and then offered a 25% discount too.
(Photo: Rob Lowe and Andrew McCarthy)

It was going to be a long drawn out graphic post and then I hit a road block when looking up some history on our Country's founding mothers. There are no songs about America's founding mothers that are not either derogatory towards women or indemnifying of their contribution to the history of this Country. I have looked all over and I dug through volumes of Americana songbooks and have not been able to locate a single song dedicated to the sacrifice that women have made in the founding of this great nation that doesn't degrade them for being a temperamental bitch.
Clementine drowned in a pool;
Dixie has a dissociative and cant tell that she's lost;
Susanna is mourning the loss of her loved one in war;
Dinah is busy in the kitchen giving someone a blowjob;
Kentucky is bipolar and suicidal looking for a glimer of hope;
Kansas is a housewife that has a voyeur fetish for ruminant mamals;
Indiana is a drunk grubby gold digging wench watching your every transaction from a distance.
Georgia is so sweet and evil she is considered a demon who preys on innocent men's brains aka a succubi;
California is waiting for you to tell it to fuck off it likes to be dominated even if it has the largest population;
There is more but you get the basic idea on the basis of each State's song but it doesnt end there. You will find that even the songs that do immortalize certain women's accomplishments is usually in tandem with their less feminine attributes or in direct reflection against their feminine nature. There are not any songs about Dolly Madison "saving a snapshot of Georgie and his wooden dentures as the Executive Plantation Manor burned to the core", during the British burning of Washington D.C. in the War of 1812. Which she then made sure to whitewash six times over to hide the burn marks. In that spirit isn't it about time we made a song for her too?
Virginia Foxx got one in 48 hours for her hatred toward & ignorance of a young gay man left on a fence to die.

By creating the first American flag she "bled with our bois in battle as she diligently weaved the banner to which we now yield our hearts toward in honour and our mind in reverence". That banner that always used to give hope to weary soldiers and citizens alike was first created by the sweat and tears of one woman. I did find one (video 6:35 mark on) satirical comedy routine Everybody Wants To Be An Art Director by Stan Freberg from his 1961 Capital Records project Presents the United States of America, Vol. 1: The Early Years which broke into a musical bit between the banter.
I am all for Free Speech and for the Nothing Sacred Rule, unless proven otherwise; but this is proven and true, by all of our young men and women whom have shed their blood into its fabric throughout time and eternity. Every time a flag is burned in disrespect you are allowing the honourable memory to fade from existence, the blood stain to be washed out and hardly recognizable to future generations.
We have garnered so much pomp and circumstance toward the ceremony and take our legacy for granted. How easily do we forget the meaning behind the words by Francis Scott Key to The Star Spangled Banner? Any time We The People allow our Government to grow without accountability we defame the honour that this flag represents. This Country that was established to provide a more perfect union, a Union of People, where all, are created equal and endowed with their rights by our Creator; not entitled to them by Society or assigned to them under law!
That struggle and journey to live that Inherent Truth every day will never be completed. However we cant only just go forward from here either, we've got to remember to look back and clean up our messes and failures every once in a while too. What is really even more sad is the original purpose of Mothers Day that of peace not war has been completely forgotten. May we not forget to love and honour in a lasting legacy our mothers both historical and biological. May our nation find peace so that no ones son or daughter has to die again.
QUESTION: Which historical women should receive the privilege of an American Folk song in their honour?
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