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Microcap & Penny Stocks : TGL WHAAAAAAAT! Alerts, thoughts, discussion.
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To: CerealMan who wrote (69726)11/4/2000 5:22:25 PM
From: CerealMan  Read Replies (1) of 150070
 
SUBJECT: AL GORE - VIET NAM...

i received this story in my email. i'm sure some of you have seen it before...
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Having posted a little tickler in last week's Digest
about Al Gore's 141 days in Vietnam. The Federalist Editorial Board was
inundated with inquiries from Vietnam vets. Most went something like this:
"Gore claimed in his convention speech: I enlisted in the Army, because I
knew
if I didn't go, someone else in the small town of Carthage, Tenn. would have
to
go in my place. Since he wasn't KIA or wounded, how was it
that his Army tour was far shorter than all the rest of us? Our astute
veteran
readers took the bait! Gore's campaign launched a multimillion dollar ad
campaign this week to tell his "life story." The ads will include references
to
his service "in Vietnam - however brief. Gore spent less than five months of
a
typical twelve-month tour in Vietnam.

He spent every minute of his "tour" as a
"rear-echelon..." (call any combat veteran and they can complete that phrase
for
you.) He was classified as a military journalist, after telling recruiters he
was a newspaper trainee" (read"copy boy") for the New York Times while a
student
at Harvard.

He was assigned as a noncombatant "information
specialist" to the Army's 20th Engineers Brigadeheadquarters at Bien Hoa
Military base, near Saigon.

Gore's immediate supervisor in Vietnam has confirmed
that his posting there came with explicit instructions to baby-sit him and
make
sure he was never in any danger. That fact notwithstanding, Gore has claimed
to
the Washington Post that he was "shot at" and "spent most of my time in the
field." He later told the Baltimore Sun that "{I} pulled my turn on the
perimeter at night and walked through the elephant grass, and I was fired
upon."

He has since backed off these exaggerated claims.



On May 22, 1971, not five months into his "tour of
duty," Gore was given special dispensation and a one-way ticket home, to
attend
divinity school in Nashville. He dropped out of Vanderbilt shortly
thereafter. As for the seven months cut from Gore's tour of duty in Vietnam,
we
suppose "someone else in the small town of Carthage, Tenn." had to finish his
tour "in his place."
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as far as i'm concerned neither has much of a military record...and not a lot of character...that's why i am voting for pokEmon...LOL...just thought i would add some balance to the military record discussion...

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