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Now that the yellow ribbons are slowly coming down, it is time to ponder the whole post-war fiasco. A decade hence this fad will appear to have been a strange, if not weird, aberration.
One cannot examine the post-war fiasco without looking for basic motivations for another exaggerated form of patriotism: the overdone military parades. We need to go to the sociologists, the psychiatrists, the psychologists-the thinkers and scholars-to find the roots for such behavior. It is more than patriotism gone berserk, but there are underlying motivations that are far from healthy.
Puck, in Shakespeare`s ”Midsummer Night`s Dream,” sums it up: ”What fools these mortals be!”
