BoatBanter.com - For Don

On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 16:34:34 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 11/16/13, 4:09 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 11/16/2013 3:27 PM, John H wrote:
On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 14:45:07 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 11/16/13, 2:36 PM, True North wrote:
Okay Johnny...let's fine tune my comments to some of the army
officers who stayed well away from the nasty stuff, such as the
Majors and above who were able to spend their Vietnam tour nights
socializing at the officer's club.
That better?

I thought JohnnyMop blew up villages and killed women and children in
Vietnam while his buddy FlaJim picked up soap in the naval vessels well
and safely offshore.

This is the type post Luddite has never seen.

Sick.

John H. -- Hope you're having a great day!

Oh, I see them and I think they are disgusting. But it's also
interesting to me to see how people interpret events in life and how
they justify their own decisions.

Harry obviously never served in the military. He never "served" period
(Peace Corps or other) to my knowledge. He said he spent some time in
'Nam identifying dead bodies but my impression is that it wasn't
something he did as a service to his country or even his fellow man. I
have the impression he did it because the pay was good. I think he has
said he was originally sent as a journalist but the job was cancelled or
something by the time he arrived.

I treat your buddy FlaJim and John the Racist and a couple of other
right wing assholes here with the same respect they treat other posters.
Your buddies like to **** on Don and a few others, so I feel it only
fair to **** on them. You've told me you think your boy FlaJim's posts
are funny. I don't see many of them, but the ones I do so remind me of
the little boys in the 7th grade who thought they were funny smartasses
but, in fact, they were only asses. From what I have seen, that's about
all your boy FlaJim does here...**** on other posters. Why you think
that is funny is beyond my understanding.

That's right. I was never in the military.

No, I was not sent as a journalist. I had written a number of newspaper
and magazine feature stories on farming and ranching while I was in the
Kansas City area. They were noticed by some of the "locals" of the USDA
and I was recruited by that agency to work on a "pacification" program
in Vietnam that involved exporting U.S. farming technical knowledge to
local farmers in that country. The bucks were not that attractive but
the assignment was. So, I was trained and was flown to Saigon for a
short training session before going out in the field. About the same
time my training was completed, I got word that the program for which I
had trained had been cancelled. I was offered a choice of being shipped
home or being seconded to the DIA for "another" assignment. I chose the
latter. The bucks there were not attractive, either.

Thanks for your support.

John H. -- Hope you're having a great day!