>Oh, right, I'm wrong, it wasn't a video camera, it was an 8mm film camera >that must have been quite bulky and heavy. Just what a guy needs tooling >around in the jungle in Vietnam. I can't believe you guys buy his BS. >
[snip] >So a Yale grad (BA Political Science - focus on American Government), head >of the Yale Political Union, volunteer in Ted Kennedy's Senate campaign >(1962), and vocal critic of US foreign policy in Vietnam was lugging around >an 8mm camera just to shoot some personal memories in the jungles of >Vietnam? Riiiight. He was also lugging around a rifle and serving his country. Despite the misgivings you stated. If anything given that he volunteered despite these misgivings brings him up a notch or two in my mind. To go in spite of what he knew, and to volunteer for a second tour in one of the more dangerous forms of naval service to boot. So what if he was carrying a camera. It was a popular thing to do. My father had a camera with him in the second world war. Does that mean he was plotting something? How about the thousands of American, Australian and New Zealand soldiers with cameras, were they plotting some future attempt at the presidency/PM. Such nefarious plotting. "Riiiight." Thanks for denigrating most of the soldiers who served in Vietnam. BTW 8mm cameras were fairly small even then, a bit smaller than the early VHS camcorders. So much for lugging stuff around. Moreover he was in a small boat. You know about boats right, they have places for stowing equipment. Like cameras and the like. So much for lugging heavy equipment. > >On this score I can at least respect BIll Clinton, who admitted that he >signed up for the draft because he had ambitions of being President someday >and didn't want to be labeled a draft dodger. > So its OK to take off for England and later register when you knew you would not draw a low draft number. But to deliberately volunteer for combat service. That's reprehensible. Much worse than using daddy's power to get into a nice safe national guard slot, or get deferment after deferment while you were "too busy". Talk about twisted patriotic values. I'm a foreigner, and I have a lot more respect for those who served in the military than what you've been expressing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:220479 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
