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To: Davis
When I returned from Vietnam I went straight to college. GI bill was paying the way and I wanted to be a doctor. I never recieved the "endoctrination" because I was in a pre-med major. My grades allowed me to pick and chose electives. Aside from my 14 hours of solid science each semester, and working a full time job, the University informed me that I MUST start fulfilling my "elective" responsibility. I outlined an elective program for myself and presented it to an "advisor". She looked at the schedule and was taken aback. You see, I had outlined a schedule full of pre-law courses. I had also studied the University requirements for elective courses, all it stated was that elective courses had to be "outside" of your major course requirements. She stated that I was absolutely required to take a 3 hour "arts" course. She also noted that with my GPA I could pretty much take any "arts" course that I wanted. I chose "Introduction to Film" I figured that would be benign enough to make it through the semester without seeing a marxist (marxists don't do science, they can't play, they have a very shallow intellect and no analytic skills).

Well, sure enough, the prof in that class was an out, and out commie. We were treated to a plethera of french films and one soviet film. I was so tired of reading subtitles by the end of that class. I was Aceing the class because I needed to keep my GPA at a 4.0. I regurgitated what he wanted to hear. For the final he assigned a paper. The topic "What films influenced your life to this date".

Ah, my final blow to this little commie. Well, I decided that I'd pretty much had enough of this little commie, so I wrote a 20 page, single spaced, thesis on the effect on American culture of the Three Stooges. I stayed awake nights watching and taking notes, I looked up articles in the library, I interviewed people, I hit the bricks running and I wrote the best I could. To make this long story short, I recieved an A in that course. I must have blown the little commie's socks off. The next semester he was including Three Stooges "shorts" in his class. This is another example of the intellectually lame left. You see, my paper was a joke, a long, funny joke, but he plagerized my joke. The commie prof though it was an intellectual work of art. Then I went back to my serious studies and was comfortable in my science and a little law, and the fact that I had kicked a commie butt with the logic that God had given me.

The commies were on campus then. I didn't want to be distracted by these idiots. I needed all the study time I could get. One night I was studying in the drom's commons. There was a loud discussion about Vietnam, against the war and anti American. They had moved in after I had started studying. When it got too uncomfortable to me, I packed up and started to leave. One comment by the group boiled my blood, I can't state exactly the words, it was a long time ago, but I stood my ground for the first time, in a long time. I walked toward the group and I said, "You will NOT desecrate the memories of the fine men that fought for this country in my presence. I am a veteran of Vietnam, I was a "doc" and a Ranger in that war. I saw more courage in one day than you will see in a lifetime. Have the common decency to wait for me to leave the room before you spew your filth at my brothers that saved my life. Have the respect of their lives, and mine, to leave this alone. I have a goal, I have to study, I have no time for politcal statements, I want to be a doctor. Leave your politics at the door if I'm in here. I'll leave if you come in, that's fair enough".

From that day forward I was treated "different". Sometimes good "different", sometimes "bad" different, but at least I had let it out and I could do what I came there to do, get my education and save lives.

19 posted on 04/04/2003 7:03:23 PM PST by timydnuc (FR)
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To: timydnuc
Good on you. I used to be a mindless anti-war protester during my college years in the 60's and have since awakened to the real world and married a VN combat vet and send Stolen Valor to all my friends as often as I can afford Burkett's book. Thank you for your service.
20 posted on 04/06/2003 1:52:32 PM PDT by squarebarb
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To: timydnuc
Great story of your life. Thanks for sharing.
21 posted on 04/07/2003 7:51:38 AM PDT by mel
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