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Article #8Re: Cheap honors
From: Al Frankfurter
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 00:00
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Our wars should be against poverty, against illiteracy. Our fight should be for a healthy nation where all have access to medical care, where age is honored. When did America have a war at its homeland. War is horrible when it comes home." Last night I dreamed the strangest dream, I never dreamed before. I dreamed the world has all agreed to make an end to war." And all the people....... Alf USParts wrote: > You are right my friend. > Its incredible how we think here in the US, we are dropping bombs in > Yugoslavia, killing tons of people, and dont like it when they capture our > soldiers and "rough them up". > I am in no way, indicating I am against the war, I am mainly talking about > the way we think. Kinda screwed up. > > Would you feed and help your attacker? What a joke. > > Rick > > Dave Johnson <pinefarm@UNIONTEL.NET> wrote in message > news:37323591.6CE4@uniontel.net... > > 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
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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: <375898c5.0@news.vcss.k12.ca.us> X-Deja-AN: 485905518 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <37323591.6CE4@uniontel.net> <7h85d3$d0s$1@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.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