Should Be Fiction Award Goes To Elderly Protestors

Father Bill Bischel

We are in the midst of a horrible Nor’easter here, so I’m not going to say much – afraid I’ll lose power / net before I get the chance. I found an interesting little bit in the Navy Times (Yeah, I still read that on occasion).

It seems that an 82 year old Catholic priest, Bill Bischel of Tacoma, accompanied by a band of 60-65 year old women (one of whom was 83 year old nun Anne Montgomery of New York City) cut their way through a fence and invaded the missile storage facility for Trident submarines at Naval Base Kitsap, in Washington. They wandered in with a banner that read:

“Disarm Now Plowshares: Trident: Illegal and Immoral”

Now – I won’t get into immorality, I hate the idea of nuclear weapons, and I grew up all through the years where we’ve tried to figure out just why in hell we thought it was a good idea to make them. Illegal, though, they are not. Still…should I be more amazed these old coots broke into the base, or concerned that a nuclear storage facility could be so easily breached?

This REALLY should be fiction, so I am dubbing it this weeks “SHOULD BE FICTION AWARD” winner.

Salute.

-DNW