[traditional1]

Never was a Cassius Clay fan. He was one of the first "Black Muslims", and changed his name due to the "makeover".

He was a black icon to black people, but he dodged the draft, and showed what contempt "his people" had for the Law.

I lost MANY friends and classmates in Nam, and I have no sympathy for whiners.

[Cen-Tejas]

........yes, just to honor him, I mention my good boyhood friend Bobby Roberts (back around 59-60)....he and I used to play cave men in a creek on Sunday afternoons which consisted of digging caves in the side of the creek, wearing cave man clothes, shooting bb guns at each other etc; etc;....................

Feb 7, 67 I joined the USNR and ultimately spent 69-71 in Sasebo, Japan..........Bobby, joined the Marines who were about to draft him anyway.....at 18, he received a bullet in the head in Vietnam....................

now tell me that Cassius is the most beloved man in the world! Bobby did his duty and paid with his life! Cassius, brave man in the ring but scared (yellow) of “them Congs” did what he did! So, as the saying goes, “it is what it is”...............