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- From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
- Subject: Re: Veterans' Day
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.181110.17010@wetware.com>
- Sender: news@wetware.com (Usenet News Account)
- Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 18:11:10 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- drk@melodian.cs.uiuc.edu (Dave Kohr) writes:
-
- ] In article <BxM807.2uy@news.orst.edu> Monte Olsen <olsenm@ccmail.orst.edu>
- ] writes:
- ] >Welcome home to you guys! There is a place where regular folks say these
- ] >things quite often. I just started reading posts there about a month ago
- ] >and the first time I saw some of the thank you notes, it was stunning.
- ] >
- ] >Monte Olsen
- ] >187th AHC, Tay Ninh
- ] >1970-71
- ]
- ] Would it maybe be worthwhile to create a separate group for discussions
- ] about Vietnam War veteran issues, called alt.war.vietnam.veterans or
- ] something like that? (There is already a group called soc.veterans, but I
- ] don't know what gets discussed on it.)
-
-
- Not like its any NEWS or anything,
- but there will always be 'strife'
- in the 'veterans' community over which
- was REALLY the 'BigWar' and what was
- really the 'HardestBit' and....
-
- And when we do not have that, there is
- the traditional interservice rivalry,
- except of course for those of us from
- Interservice Units who KNOW we are
- Implicitly Superior to the rest of
- those 'grunt types' who just are
- lowly <token> and hence are <token2>.
-
- Our Current Mission Spec is to help
- the indigenous population as it tries
- to understand complex issues.
-
- ciao
- drieux
-
- ps: its called 'winning the hearts and minds' of the natives....
-
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