Dan Rather, Bed Wetter (fake but accurate)
Posted on 09/20/2004 5:27:26 AM PDT by DJ Taylor
"At the time, a childhood case of rheumatic fever would have made him ineligible for enlistment in the Marines."
I just saw this thread tonight some 2 months after you initially posted it.
Perhaps things were different in the 1950's! During the mid 1970's I attempted to join the Marines. I was eligible after I had passed all of the physicals and other testing. The one thing which prevented me from actually joining was that the Marines only allowed 6 months for a delayed enlistment. At the time, I required an 8 month lead. I wanted to be home for the birth of my first born, ultimately my daughter.
The Army allowed up to 12 months for a delayed enlistment. I was therefore compelled to join the Army. I in fact did suffer a bout with rheumatic fever in my youth, but there was no heart valve damage, and so I never had any physical anomalies and thus no restrictions. I was fit to join the Marines or any other military branch.
I found your post to be interesting and enlightening. I despise Dan Rather, and I feel quite fortunate now that I was able to serve. I did not see any actual conflict, but I knew what my oath meant when I made it back then.
Gosh it continues to amaze as to just how much of a dick Dan Rather truly is.
Thank you for your post on this, and for your service.
Stick Around Marine, you're welcome here!
USMC 1977-1981
Rather’s Lawyer: ‘Nobody’s Proved the Documents Were Forgeries’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1899589/posts?page=5
Heck, just hearing him deny it, would be a barrel of laughs.
“I am not a bedwetter.”
Yep...he could look the camera in the eye, wag a finger and say, "I did not wet the bed in boot camp, no not once, not ever"
ROFLOL!!
I would pay to watch....HA!!
Great details there. So many of us would have no idea without your sharing this account. I would have guessed that washing out of the Marines for bedwetting would have resulted in transfer to another branch of the service. Thanks for the info.
Dan Rather, Bed Wetter (fake but accurate)
Some of guys went AWOL, they would wind up in the hospital with broken arms/legs, a another blew his brain out at the gun range.
The trick was not to make the DI dislike you, other wise life was hell. I was a college boy so the DI didn't like me. But I was in superb physical condition so I could do with ease just about anything they told me to do. Did spend a day or two in motovation platoon. That was no fun!
I reffer to myself as an inactive Marine", long time inactive LOL.
Dan Rather: the news is fake, the soaked and reeking mattress is all too real.
Gag.
Hey Marines: What happened to the rack-pisser's mattress? Did they throw it out, or did some poor unsuspecting SOB have to sleep on it?
I was living in Round Rock, just outside of Austin, when the fake document incident occurred. Not long before the incident, Dan Rather was the featured guest at a Travis County Democrat Party fundraiser. The chair”person” of the Travis County Democrat Party was none other than Rather’s homely, hairy-legged, “comfortable-shoe-wearing daughter” Robin. So much for Dan Rather’s self-proclaimed objectivity.
This is close to the value of BUCKHEAD..!
After a year in Vietnam, I was assigned to Hickam AFB, HI. I did a lot of traveling in my job, and became pretty good friends with a woman who ran the passenger terminal. She had many stories to tell, but one that sticks in my memory was about two GI’s on a contract flight transiting Hickam who were removed after they were caught, one performing oral sex on the other. Apparently this happened more often than one would expect because these guys—draftees—didn’t want to go to Vietnam.
Me too, my son gave it to me for my last birthday. I now wear it proudly for the same reason you do.
Way to go, timydnuc. Never let them forget!
I spent a weekend with a guy I met at the VA in PTSD treatment. He is in a bad way, worse than usual. He was the last face many a wounded troop saw. Lost a few medics to booby trapped VC. It was painful to see him so lost in his nightmares of 1964.
Anyway, welcome home, and thank you for your service.
Huh?
DJ Taylor signed up Sept. 19, 2004. This is 2007. He's been here 3 years and a day.
Thank you for the insight.
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