[opendtv] Re: SINCLAIR TO AIR "A POW STORY: POLITICS, PRESSUREAND THE MEDIA"
- From: "Dewey Weaver" <dweaver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:22:20 -0400
Bob - thank you for your service to this country. Bush was honorably
discharged. Flying F4s over the GOM was not exactly a risk free endeavor. John
Kerry volunteered and put himself in the line of fire then gave comfort to the
enemy in Paris while he was still an officer in the Navy. Aren't you interested
in seeing the 100 or so pages of his military records that he refuses to
release? Bush released all of his... why doesn't John Kerry do the same? What
does he have to hide?
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From: Bob Miller <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:18:30 -0400
>Here is my "hero" scale. Many of us had to weigh the different paths we=20
>could take and those taken by others at the time of the Vietnam war.
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>When the Vietnam era dawned most of us were pro war. Heroes at that time =
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>were such as Bush senior who went unblinking into a war that was truly=20
>lethal.
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>As the various stages of Vietnam played out we got student deferments=20
>for college, being married, getting a good number, knowing someone who=20
>could get you into the National Guard, conscientious objector status and =
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>running off to Toronto.
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>The heroes were the ones who volunteered for Vietnam because they=20
>believed it was the right thing to do, the ones who ran off to Toronto=20
>because they thought it was the right thing to do and the conscientious=20
>objectors like Ali who went to jail and suffered ridicule.
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>Heroes in order...
>Volunteers for Nam
>Those who actively apposed the war on principle especially the early ones=
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>Conscientious objectors
>Toronto runaways
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>Good guys...
>Those who enlisted or were drafted or got lucky, its OK in my book to=20
>get lucky
>Married types who married for love not to dodge the draft
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>Scum..
>Those who dodged the draft by joining the National Guard because of=20
>connections
>Those who used their family doctors in a conspiracy to avoid the draft
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>That is what I thought then and it is what I think now.
>BTW I was one who allowed himself to be drafted after checking our=20
>Toronto. My dad said he would rather see me dead at his hands. Didn't=20
>volunteer for NAM and declined officer candidate school. Did participate =
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>in one candle lite march against the war after. Definitely not a hero=20
>but in my book Kerry was on the top two counts, volunteered for NAM and=20
>then flip flopped and went against the war on principle.
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>We need someone who can flip flop like that.
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>I couldn't vote for Bush for one overwhelming reason. I think he has and =
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>is and will continue to lie about almost all aspects of his National=20
>Guard duty. I think he still owes at least two and possibly four years=20
>of his six year enlistment. I think he got into the guard by special=20
>treatment, served with special treatment and got out early with special=20
>treatment.
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>I voted for his dad twice after voting for Reagan twice. I don't=20
>recognize any aspect of this Republican party.
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>Bob Miller
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>Dewey Weaver wrote:
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>>Who said "provocative" first? Michael Moore? =20
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>>John Kerry, God bless him, went off to war and put himself in the line o=
>f fire. No one can question the bravery that is needed to take that step=
>=2E He also went armed with a video camera and a diary, determined to be =
>this generation's JFK. He got in and out (I really wish that he would rel=
>ease his Navy discharge papers so that we can get those facts, not his Na=
>val Reserve discharge papers that were modified after he became a Senator=
>). When the situation in the states didn't accomodate his war hero plan a=
>nd being the existential soul that he is (aka Bill Clinton), he switched =
>horses to the anti-US side. There are elements of both sides of John Kerr=
>y that he, the DNC and the mainstream media simply refuse to address and =
>don't want us regular old Americans to know. Sinclair is stepping up and=
> filling the void. That is covering the news as it should be covered - no=
>t making it as the ABC crew was attempting in communist Vietnam (boy that=
> one washed out quickly).
>>
>>Kerry should agree to be part of the program. Surely he has the confiden=
>ce to be able to take on Mark Hyman.=20
>>
>>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>>From: "John Golitsis" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Reply-To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:31:55 -0400
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