posted on September 25, 2000 02:57:22 PM new
I havent read all these pages so don't know if this was already mentioned but I loved seeing her on David Letterman. He put her in tears at least one time. Embarassed her terribly a couple of times.
posted on September 25, 2000 03:54:47 PM new
Gee Mikey,
But look back and see that I made no such post in this thread before you piped up with your wannabe tripe. I don't blow my horn, I just tell the truth now about my service in Vietnam. It was over twenty years before I began on a path to ward doing that, and my first wife of over twelve years never even knew that I'd been there. She did know about nearly being killed in the night, about my nightmares, sweats, the scars on my leg, but I wouldn't even respond when she asked me about them.
Something that you don't know is that now after more than five years of VA treatment, and a nearly two year claim fight with them which has resulted in a 100% service connected rating form them after 27 years, I now work as an outreach councellor for Vietnam Veterans trying to bring those guys out of their personal hiding retreats and get them some money or other assistance if they are actually combat veterans. Yo see, the VA will not grant service connection money without documentation of actual combat which means medals for valor (only) or purple hearts, both of which are accepted as prima face evidence of combat experience. A lot of guys hear of what I do through others and come to me hoping, but I have to weed out the Vietnam era but not combat vets. I get a lot of guys making claims, but have to go find the combat guys usually because they're reticent or have given up, or just want nothing to do with the system. I convince them at talks I give in the vet centers, in drunk driving mandated schools, at rehab centers. I have little time or patience with phonies or with armchair knowitall jerks.
Catch my drift?
posted on September 25, 2000 04:46:52 PM newShellyHerr,
I had to delete one of your posts because of profanity. Substituting a number for a letter doesn't make it okay.
Everyone,
It seems as time goes on the comments become more personal. I know this is an emotionally charged subject, but please keep your comments to the subject and not other posters.
posted on September 25, 2000 05:31:43 PM newJoice,
Hi.
As far as I'm concerned this thread can be locked.
Sgtmike is pursueing (s) some perverse agenda of his own, as usual, which has nothing whatever to do with the subject of the thread. In fact, he's made only one post which had any relation to the subject, and that one was a repeat of a post by another.
The issue of Jane Fonda's nomination/election for honor as a [whatever it is] has been explored and participated in by all who seem to wish to do so.
posted on September 25, 2000 05:37:05 PM newSgtMike You might do yourself a favor and step back and read your own post as compared to KRS. I think it will become blatantly obvious as to which of the two of you has made a real contribution to this thread. I can't see anything worthwhile in anything you've said these last few days and am especially baffled by your motives? I'm looking for an ounce of real thought in anything you've posted here and can't find it. You're coming across as a resentful little brother - not a pretty site. The fact is that KRS and others who spent time in Vietnam are doing us all a favor when they share their perspective and understanding of the war. If this thread proves nothing else - it proves that we all could benefit from more of that. I'm not sure why you would see it as "blowing a horn."
posted on September 25, 2000 05:45:43 PM newJoice I'm really not looking for answers in the questions I posed to SgtMike - Just trying to make a point - I'm sure his response would be lost in $3.00 bills - so, don't leave it open on my account.
