Re: Cheap honors

Article View: bit.org.peace-corps

Article #7

Back to bit.org.peace-corps Previous Next

From: Al Frankfurter
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 00:00

12 lines
1186 bytes

We need heroes, so we create them. Wouldn't it be better if we would reward
teachers Teachers are heros and deserve recognition. They are roughed up
daily. Alf

Dave Johnson wrote:

> I think it is really outrageous to award Purple Hearts to the three guys
> who were taken prisoner and then released, simply because they were
> roughed up a bit. That really degrades the medal and is an insult to the
> men who were actually wounded and suffered from those wounds. Many of
> them still suffer from them. Victims as heroes. Politics, not
> heroism.Nauseating        Dave Johnson

Technical Details

Message-ID: <375896d2.0@news.vcss.k12.ca.us>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail

References: <37323591.6CE4@uniontel.net>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: f96fd,255af13ba6945757
X-Google-Attributes: gidf96fd,public
From: Al Frankfurter <"frankfurtera"@vcss .k12.ca.us>
Subject: Re: Cheap honors
Date: 1999/06/04
Message-ID: <375896d2.0@news.vcss.k12.ca.us>
X-Deja-AN: 485905517
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
References: <37323591.6CE4@uniontel.net>
X-Accept-Language: en
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353"
Organization: CSUnet
Mime-Version: 1.0
Reply-To: frankfurtera@vcss, .k12.ca.us
Newsgroups: bit.org.peace-corps

Reply to Parent Message