You’re right, I’m new to this web-site and not too sure of what a “Troll” might be, so I’ll let you decide.
Your comment concerning my writing skills is appreciated, as they seem to come from someone associated with the Staff/Faculty of the University of Virginia at Richmond. I assure you, any writing skills I may have were gained after my retirement, while using the GI Bill at George Mason University, and not prior to my service in the Marine Corps.
As for the “smell” of 10 college boys being bed-wetters, you seem to have taken special umbrage with that statement, probably because, as an academic, you identify with them. I apologize, if I offended you, and I would like to clarify that paragraph for you. When I wrote, “about 20 high school graduates, about 20 high school drop outs, and about 10 college boys,” I was being intentionally vague about the exact number because, after almost a half century, I wasn’t completely sure of the exact number. What I do specifically remember is that there were between 5 to 10 college boys in my recruit platoon and none of them made it to graduation. Most of them I knew to be bed-wetters, but I never learned why some of them disappeared, I only suspected that they too were nocturnally incontinent. It was only after several years that I began to suspect that I had been witness to a draft-dodging scam perpetrated on the Marine Corps.
I will not go into my military service and tours in Vietnam, as that is not pertinent to the issue at hand. But, I will admit that there has been a deep burning hate in my gut for Dan Rather ever since the election of 1968 when, in support of an ant-war Democrat for President, he began to make anti-American and pro-Communist reports from Vietnam for CBS (Communist Broadcasting System). The fact that I was in a death struggle with the enemies of my country and he took the side of the enemy will not soon be forgotten by me or any of my fellow marines, soldiers, sailors, or airmen with whom I served in the Republic of Vietnam.
If this makes me a “Troll” on your web-site, then maybe I’m just on the wrong site.
I, respectfully, withdraw my charge. You clearly are not a troll. No self-respecting troll would state the anti communistic stuff you did. Welcome, and I mean it, to FR. For a first post, it was a good one. The idea Rather would have been a bed wetter .... it just rings so loudly as possible.
And I detest Rather as well. You are on the, ahem, right site.
(Btw, I'm not an academic, nor in academia (and I don't write well, granted). I'm merely a golfer, a severely handicapped golfer. Was bitten by the incurable virus only last year.)
"as they seem to come from someone associated with the Staff/Faculty of the University of Virginia at Richmond. "
Btw, just curious, what prompted this association? I don't have a thing to do with this outfit...
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