I have musical tinnitus too. It only started about 4 months ago. I do have some hearing loss, but this was completely unexpected. Mine also runs constantly and sometimes even wakes me up. It's often Christmas carols, which is especially ironic, since I'm Jewish…
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It's nice that you've got a sense of humor about it, being Jewish and all.
Your humor also made me think of something the other day when my family volunteered to lay Christmas wreaths on veterans' tombstones.
Most are, of course, Christian, with a cross engraved in the marble. Some are Jewish, with the Star of David engraved in the marble. A few have nothing, or a symbol I didn't recognize. For those not familiar with the event, the procedure, out of respect, is to take one wreath at a time, go to the tombstone, read the deceased's name aloud, thank them for their service, and place the wreath just below their name.
I didn't think twice about the religion of the veteran, since anyone who served is worthy of respect and appreciation for helping to keep our nation safe.
Toward the end, when most sites already had a wreath, it seemed that the ones I was going to were Jewish veterans. It didn't occur to me that people might be purposely avoiding placing wreaths there until a woman saw me and said, "Yeah, thanks, I'm also making sure to place them on the Jewish graves." She almost sounded annoyed, and I inferred she was implying it was because they were Jewish, as if it were a slight.
I briefly said, "I really hadn't put any thought into what religion the veteran was," and continued placing wreaths until everyone was finished in my section.
It got me thinking, though, so I went to one of the staff members after the ceremony to ask if that was a thing. He explained that some Jewish veterans who are interred there, and or their families, specifically request not to have wreaths placed. However, for the purpose of the ceremony, they don't instruct volunteers to avoid those graves, because some Jewish veterans would appreciate the sentiment. Unless they, or deceased individuals of other faiths, specifically request otherwise, the caretakers leave the wreaths in place.
Afterward, they've got a list of graves where wreaths aren't supposed to remain and remove them.
At that point, the light bulb went off in my ringing head. I hadn't thought twice about it, because in my mind everyone deserved the honor, and it had nothing to do with religion. In my view, if I'd perished in a foreign country, say Israel, and were buried there, and they had a traditional Hanukkah ceremony honoring the deceased, mostly Jews because they make up most of the country, I wouldn't have any issue, to the degree any of us can once we're gone, with being honored through a Jewish tradition.
I've obviously gone a bit far from the primary theme of the thread, but we all need some levity and or distractions because of our maladies.
