[MR] Fwd: Re: A&S Sponsors for non-A&S people

[Cecelia Hughes]

Sorry, I meant to send this to the list...

> 
> --- Logan <logan at ebonwoulfe.com> wrote:
> .....  i guess im still a little torn when it comes
> > to
> > asking what laurel and pelican candidates have done for the army. 
> i
> > think
> > we get so many perks as fighters that it seems a little unfair to
> > expect a
> > pelican, for example, to have served us in any form.  i mean what
> if
> > he/she
> > spends all their time assisting cooks or children?  little time
> will
> > be had
> > for the army directly but are not these services equally as
> > important?  and
> > yes, it could be weakly argued that watching a single fathers child
> > or
> > feeding him at the end of the day are services to the army.  not a
> > good
> > enough argument to convince me though.
> 
> Every army I know of marches on its stomach.  And as a youth
> minister,
> not only have I watched that single parent fighter's child, but I
> have
> kept the small ones from swarming the list field (Wow!  Look at all
> that open space!  They must mean that for us to play in!), I've
> taught
> them about knighthood, I've gotten them into youth fighting, and I've
> tried really hard to give them a reason to want to stick around
> during
> those teen years when everything is boring because they aren't
> allowed
> to fight.  As a herald, I have cried more than one Crown Tourney and
> been War Herald for more than one War (back in the days when we were
> the only source for news and the camp's basic loud-speaker system,
> thank you.  oops.  That probably dates me...)  I have made banners
> for
> war points and for armies.  As a scribe I have done about a metric
> ton
> of scrolls for martial awards.  I've made surcoats for fighters as
> well.  I would hesitate to call that a weak argument.
> 
> Your examples do, however, remind me of the argument I used to put
> forward in the days when there were separate arts and sciences
> ministers (oops!  Dated myself again...)  I think all of our
> scientists
> and craftsmen should pour their energies into creating an
> instantaneous
> mode of transportation, so we could get rid of the drive time to get
> to
> events.  Then, if the arts people wanted to get involved, they could
> embroider something nice to throw over top of it when it wasn't in
> use...
> 
> Hey!  It makes as much sense as trying to separate the arts and
> service
> from fighting and still have a medieval recreation group, doesn't it?
> 
> Graidhne ni Ruaidh
> (sometimes known as Granny the Rude) 
> 
> 
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