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New Soldier Current Wisdom (hanoi john's book)
The American Spectator ^ | 9/27/04 | not given

Posted on 09/27/2004 5:17:54 AM PDT by GailA

New Soldier Current Wisdom Published 9/27/2004 12:03:23 AM

(Special Preview: From the October 2004 American Spectator) In a gallimaufry of puerile prose from his 1971 Band of Brothers, the Democratic Party's 2004 Vietnam Vet of the Year publishes sniveling sentiments and hairy-chested boasts that he apparently hoped time would erase:

Jim Weber I, I didn't care about anyone else. You know, I cared about myself and I, I got drafted into the army and it made quite a big change because I was waving flags all the time that I was on my train, you know, down to South Carolina where I got my murder training. And I ... okay, I went in there and my complete moral worth was completely destroyed. I mean I was a worthless human being. The worst thing that you can be in the military is to be called a civilian. And so they had to completely re-socialize us, which they were very effective at doing. I didn't agree with everything, but I went along with it. Then I was sent on to advanced genocide training down at Fort Polk, Louisiana. And this is where I got, you know, this is where I started to hate, hate anything that wasn't exactly like me. Anything that wasn't a fighting machine. Gooks.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hanoijohh; kerry; thenewsoldier; vietnam
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1 posted on 09/27/2004 5:17:54 AM PDT by GailA
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To: GailA

"gallimaufry": A jumble; a hodgepodge.


The things I learn at FR!


2 posted on 09/27/2004 5:28:13 AM PDT by Maria S
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To: GailA

They taught you how to stay alive so that you could come back to the U.S. and bash them.


3 posted on 09/27/2004 5:47:11 AM PDT by AIC
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To: GailA

John Kerry hits like a girl...

4 posted on 09/27/2004 6:20:43 AM PDT by Kenton ("Life is tough, and it's really tough when you're stupid" - Damon Runyon)
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To: AIC
I had 4 cousins in Nam, 2 on my mom's side and 2 on my dad's side of the family. One earned a purple heart, he walked with a cane from many months after he came home from the hospital. None of them were rapist or baby killers.

The Military gives you the training to do your job which is to defend your country and yourself. These men were pacifist to begin with just as hanoi john was.

None of them are fit to spit shine the shoes of a raw recruit on his second day of basic training.

5 posted on 09/27/2004 6:22:43 AM PDT by GailA ( hanoi john, I'm for the death penalty for terrorist, before I impose a moratorium on it.)
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To: GailA

Does anyone know the names of Kerry's 1971 band of brothers?
(on the cover of 'The New Soldier')
I am especially interested in the figure on the far left.


6 posted on 09/27/2004 8:00:04 AM PDT by greasepaint
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To: greasepaint

Not that I know of.


7 posted on 09/27/2004 4:23:36 PM PDT by GailA ( hanoi john, I'm for the death penalty for terrorist, before I impose a moratorium on it.)
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