[optacon-l] Re: Fw: Worth Reading: Pledge of Allegiance by John McCain
- From: "Anthony Vece" <ajvece@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:02:16 -0400
Hi Don;
I understand completely.
I am sorry.
It irritates me as much as everyone else.
For those of you who understand, thank you.
Sincerely
Anthony
----- Original Message -----
From: "don bishop" <w6smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 2:56 PM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Fw: Worth Reading: Pledge of Allegiance by John
McCain
> Anthony,
>
> You're sending these messages out to lists again, and the subject
> matter has absolutely nothing to do with the list. I'm getting
> complaints about this, and justifyably so.
>
> Please stop sending out such off-topic messages until you can
> resolve the problem with your address book. If any more of these
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> There are many people on that list, and many from other countries
> who have to pay for downloading mail etc., and it really is an
> imposition on those folks.
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> I realize you have some problems there, but I also have to keep in
> mind the best interest of those on the optacon-l list. I hope you
> can understand my position on this.
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> Thanks,
>
> Don
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anthony Vece" <ajvece@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 11:11 AM
> Subject: [optacon-l] Fw: Worth Reading: Pledge of Allegiance by John
> McCain
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>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Tinney" <tinneyb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Bob Tinney" <tinneyb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 4:08 PM
> Subject: Worth Reading: Pledge of Allegiance by John McCain
>
>
>> I've seen this before, but it's worth reading again!
>> Bob, tinneyb@xxxxxxxxxxx, K8LR
>> Skype name: bobtinn
>> Live Long and Prosper!
>>
>>
>> In light of the recent appeals court ruling in California, with
>> respect to
>> the
>> Pledge of Allegiance, the following recollection from Senator John
>> McCain
>> is very appropriate:
>>
>> The Pledge of Allegiance' - by Senator John McCain
>>
>> As you may know, I spent five and one half years as a prisoner of
>> war
>> during
>> the
>> Vietnam War. In the early years of our imprisonment, the NVA kept
>> us in
>> solitary confinement or two or three to a cell. In 1971 the NVA
>> moved us
>> from
>> these conditions of isolation into large rooms with as many as 30
>> to 40
>> men
>> to a room.
>>
>> This was, as you can imagine, was a wonderful change and was a
>> direct
>> result
>> of
>> the efforts of millions of Americans on behalf of a few hundred
>> POWs
>> 10,000
>> miles from home.
>>
>> One of the men who moved into my room was a young man named Mike
>> Christian.
>>
>> Mike came from a small town near Selma , Alabama. He didn't wear a
>> pair of
>> shoes
>> until he was 13 years old. At 17, he enlisted in the Navy. He
>> later earned
>> a commission by going to Officer Training School. Then he became a
>> Naval
>> Flight
>> Officer and was shot down and captured in 1967. Mike had a keen
>> and deep
>> appreciation of the opportunities this country and our military
>> provide
>> for
>> people who want to work and want to succeed.
>>
>> As part of the change in treatment, the Vietnamese allowed some
>> prisoners
>> to
>> receive packages from home. In some of these packages were
>> handkerchiefs,
>> scarves
>> and other items of clothing.
>>
>> Mike got himself a bamboo needle. Over a period of a couple of
>> months, he
>> created an American flag and sewed it on the inside of his shirt.
>>
>> Every afternoon, before we had a bowl of soup, we would hang
>> Mike's shirt
>> on
>> the
>> wall of the cell and say the Pledge of Allegiance.
>>
>> I know the Pledge of Allegiance may not seem the most important
>> part of
>> our
>> day
>> now, but I can assure you that in that stark cell it was indeed
>> the most
>> important and meaningful event.
>>
>> One day the Vietnamese searched our cell, as they did
>> periodically, and
>> discovered Mike's shirt with the flag sewn inside and removed it.
>>
>> That evening they returned, opened the door of the cell, and for
>> the
>> benefit
>> of
>> all of us, beat Mike Christian severely for the next couple of
>> hours. They
>> opened the door of the cell and threw him in. We cleaned him up as
>> well as
>> we
>> could.
>>
>> The cell in which we lived had a concrete slab in the middle on
>> which we
>> slept
>> and four naked light bulbs hung in each corner of the room.
>>
>> As I said, we tried to clean up Mike as well as we could. After
>> the
>> excitement
>> died down, I looked in the corner of the room and sitting there
>> beneath
>> that
>> dim light bulb with a piece of red cloth, another shirt and his
>> bamboo
>> needle,
>> was my friend, Mike Christian. He was sitting there with his eyes
>> almost
>> shut from the beating he had received, making another American
>> flag. He
>> was
>> not
>> making the flag because it made Mike Christian feel better. He was
>> making
>> that flag because he knew how important it was to us to be able to
>> Pledge
>> our
>> allegiance to our flag and country.
>>
>> So the next time you say the Pledge of Allegiance, you must never
>> forget
>> the
>> sacrifice and courage that thousands of Americans have made to
>> build our
>> nation
>> and promote freedom around the world
>>
>> You must remember our duty, our honor and our country
>>
>> 'I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of Ameri ca
>> and to
>> the
>> republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible,
>> with
>> liberty
>> and justice for all.'
>>
>> PASS THIS ON... and on... and on! You can even send it back to me,
>> I don't
>> mind,
>> because its worth reading again!
>>
>>
>>
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