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To: menanna who wrote (43663)	12/19/2003 10:56:29 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 74559

Hi Annamaria, There is something about your writing that just jumps off the page. Thank you so much for that wonderful story about your father. My hat's off in admiration for what your family did for the Resistance in hard times. My father served in the US Navy as a mechanic on an anti-submarine airplane in Florida and the Carolinas. This was almost as plush as George Bush's term of duty in the Texas Air National Guard a couple decades later. The difference being that il mio padre didn't go AWOL. <g> I am proud of my service during the Viet Nam War. I was on the barricades and in the streets of Madison, WI and Washington, DC, facing the domestic wing of the police state, getting repeated tear and pepper gassed, facing arrest and putting my body along with so many others on the gears and wheels of the military machine. As is the case today, there was a large contingent of honest and decent CIA analysts who hated the distortions that their respective administrations are and were involved in. I was surprised in October, 1970 to be marching in a half-million person march with a friend's father who was a 25-year CIA man. We were very proud of him. *** Re: I think you are the most prolific poster on SI. <vbg>. Recently yes. I'm feeling a lot like Churchill did in 1936, in his 'wilderness years', when there was a mistaken complacency among the British and American publics regarding the threat that Hitler posed to the world. In George Bush, I can see a dangerous and deranged megalomaniac who lusts to be the first emperor running the Pax Americana perpetual war, and ruining the future for billions of us. *** Be sure to keep an eye out for Michael Moore's blockbuster next summer. "Farenheit 911: The Temperature at Which Democracy Burns" promises to hugely controversial. Should be fun, in a perverse sort of way.