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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (58747)	10/12/1999 6:08:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

You painted Reagan's words as 1) first as delusional and then 2) as beneath contempt and perpetrating a lie when you claim that he was trying to horn in on the glory of men who fought in combat. Your words: I wrote earlier, and repeat: This shameless man who had spent the war in Hollywood, lying each night next to his wife in a comfortable bed, drew around himself as a decoration the cloak of sacrifice that had been earned with blood, sweat and tears, as the precisely accurate cliche goes, by the "several millions" he claimed to have so much "in common with." Reagan was trying to look like he, "IN COMMON WITH" the veterans who had NOT spent the war making love to their wives any damn time they wanted to between clean sheets and ten feet from a full fridge so they could have chocolate ice cream after and take a nice cool bath together, and if it was a Sunday, sleep late and read about the genuine horrific, and exhausting sacrifices made by OTHER veterans, not by him, OTHERS, with whom he has some goddam nerve claiming a commonality of sacrifice or need of rest or need to lie in bed with their wives, whose faces they might not have had clear any more were it not for muddy pictures in their pockets. Message 11475561 -OK, so you dropped an integral part of the fabrication when you were caught. But from what I can tell, Reagan's words about going home to his wife were from his autobiography and they came after he had detailed that he had mainly made movies during the war. In order to validate your interpretation that Reagan wanted people to believe that he was way off fighting the war, he would have had to have made them in a context where he was trying to put one over on his respective audience - and where they did not know what he did do. You haven't come close to showing that. There is no evidence that Reagan ever hid what he did during the war or was ashamed of it.