Re: Patriotic Music 101

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyross.com>]

On 29 Sep 2001, at 4:06, Jeremy Mixer wrote:

> I also never understood why this was the land where our fathers died when
> my father was alive and well.

When we first sang that song in first grade, the teacher explained that 
this didn't really mean your father, it meant your grandfathers.  My 
grandfathers were both alive and well, but I figured that maybe some 
people's grandfathers weren't.

I've actually been making similar puns in Hebrew with the High Holidays 
liturgy.  For those in the know, I've been asking about these guys Eric 
Apayim and Rabbi Chesed V'Emet and how they got their names into 
the liturgy.  And who's this guy "Ed"?  And why does Nomar's name 
appear in so many Hebrew prayers?


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