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To: PCModem who wrote (32114)	7/16/1999 10:59:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

(besides RAH was like a god to me while growing up). You're not Egyptian are you ... ?

To: PCModem who wrote (32114)	7/16/1999 11:11:00 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Starship Troopers was GROSS. Ammo loves it. We own it. However, it is unreal enough not to affect us. I think it's once we live a situation that it becomes unbearable to watch. My roommate lost a brother in the Vietnam War, and I had friends wounded and many more who returned home physically whole, but emotionally destroyed. Lot of drug dependency. My father went to a bullfight while he was in the service (early 40s) and he and his friends cheered for the bull. I still have the letter he wrote my mother about it. He was a very funny man, but you can still read his aversion to the scene. They left before the bull was killed. His letters, which my mother retyped and kept in a book, are full of very funny things---with an undercurrent of horror and terrible loneliness. It is inconceivable to me--- I was furious last night watching this movie-- that we can send our boys into such awful, awful things. For political reasons. Not so much WWII, which was unavoidable, but Vietnam or the recent conflicts. I kept seeing my boys' faces...I can't stand it.