http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1196271/posts?q=1&&page=51
To: Pikamax
William B. Rood helped to fund this PBS documentary
Be good, smile pretty
On March 16, 2001, 32-year-old Tracy Droz Tragos typed her father's name into Yahoo.com and hit 'Search.' Two and a half years later, the results of that search are chronicled in BE GOOD, SMILE PRETTY, a film that documents Tracy’s journey to find the father she lost in Vietnam. Lt. Donald Glenn Droz was 25 when he died; Tracy was three months old.
Four months after the completion of BE GOOD, SMILE PRETTY, Tracy, her husband, and her mother went to Vietnam to visit the place where Lt. Donald Glenn Droz had been killed. Chris, Tracy's husband, kept a diary of their trip.
Tracy's journey began with an article she found about the ambush that killed six men, including her father
What she found on the Web that night was "Death of the 43," a first-person, detailed account by a witness to an ambush in the Mekong Delta that destroyed a Navy swift boat and killed six men, including her father, Lt. Donald Glenn Droz.
After waiting two days, Tracy called her mother to tell her of the article. Thus began a conversation between the two on film, with Tracy gently but insistently probing her mother, Judy Droz Keyes, to dredge up and piece together old memories and to flesh out and give life to the shadowy figure of her daughter's dreams.
Together they open a long-buried trunk, examining the contents—photographs, champagne bottles, letters, home movies, audiotapes of phone conversations—like shards of pottery and artifacts from some ancient civilization. Who was this man? What was he like? What is his legacy? Many of his letters signed off with "Be good, smile pretty," a closing which Tracy later came to view as something many people do in burying their grief rather than facing it.
Tracy's film odyssey takes her from Berkeley, California to Rich Hill, Missouri, her father's hometown, and then on to the United States Senate, the United States Naval Academy, the cotton fields of Selma, Alabama, suburban Illinois, New York City, Santa Rosa, California and places in between, to talk with relatives and her father's comrades from Vietnam. These men (including Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts), now in their 50s and 60s, are the age her father would have been had he survived. [snip]
65 posted on 08/21/2004 10:14:12 AM PDT by syriacus (Benedict Arnold REALLY was a war hero --- --- before he was a traitor.)
Couple of points here:
So Tracy was 3 months old when her father died in April. Which makes her mother pregnant when she was 'struck on the head by a baton' by an officer? That seems odd to me.
Oh, the bigger point what is it with Dem women who WEAR their dead husbands names while they are (or in this case appear to be) married to someone else? Does this not appear to be, well, sick? This woman's husband's name should be Mr. Judith Droz just as Kerrie's name should be Mr. Teresa Heinz. What about the men who go along with this? We all know JonKerrie is for sale but....
Is it normal for people to have audiotapes of phone conversations?
Or was Mommy there taping her hubby when he called so she could use bits and pieces of the conversations for her political activism buddies or to provide info to handlers?