To: ALOHA RONNIE
They know all too well what happened in that part of the world.
24 posted on
05/20/2004 7:33:00 PM PDT by
Petronski
(They could choose between shame and war: Some chose shame, but got war anyway.)
To: Petronski; VOA; Fred Mertz; GOPrincess; Mustang; NYer; LindaSOG
25 posted on
05/20/2004 7:46:55 PM PDT by
ALOHA RONNIE
(Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.LZXRAY.com)
To: Petronski
They know all too well what happened in that part of the world.
When I returned to graduate school, my cousin and a friend of his dragged me
to the movies one Friday night. They were just looking for a movie, any movie and
just picked "The Killing Fields" at random.
I'm just a bit older, so after the opening of the film, I remember where I've heard the
term (title of the movie)...and settled back to watch some of the horrified looks
on the mugs of my cousin and his buddy.
They were even more stunned when seeing the field/swamp basically full of
skulls/skeletal remains. It was slightly fun to say to them "And this is what really
happened."
Sad end-note: the fellow who played the reporter's assistant was killed during
a shooting (robbery?)here in Los Angeles.
26 posted on
05/20/2004 7:57:47 PM PDT by
VOA
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