[lit-ideas] Re: Purrfect Angels
- From: jimkandjulieb@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:47:29 -0400
I gues you missed the Pola-Palooza series of "news" articles and photo shots
last week.....
Julike Kruege
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From: john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Sent: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 3:57 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Purrfect Angels
Andreas Ramos wrote:
> Remember the scene in Apocalypse Now where Playboy bunnies are brought > in
> by helicopter for the troops?
> That was merely a movie, you may say.
> In Bush's faith-based war, fiction trumps reality.
History trumps both reality and fiction.
There WERE Playboy bunnies who were choppered out to fire support bases in
Vietnam. This is not some new Bush plan to corrupt those who place IED's on
roads; it's long-standing practice.
There were also "Donut Dollies," Red Cross volunteers who flew even further out
into the field, to smaller landing zones. (I'm not being derogatory here; the
term was the term used then, and for historical accuracy, that's what I'm stuck
with. It doesn't really help the present to write ugly words out of the past.)
Most of the Playboy bunnies stayed close to the big shows, like the ones Bob
Hope did. But there were several occasions where they flew further out, to
medium sized bases.
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Lisle, IL, USA
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