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To: combjelly who wrote (311614)11/21/2006 7:55:33 PM
From: longnshort  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1578105
 
gee, Hackworth, wasn't he the most decorated soldier in nam ???

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To: combjelly who wrote (311614)11/21/2006 7:59:43 PM
From: longnshort  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1578105
 
Gore Had Bodyguards Assigned to Keep Him Out of Harm’s Way in Vietnam. "In Vietnam, Alan Leo, a photographer in the press brigade office where Gore worked as a reporter, said he was summoned by Brig. Gen. K.B. Cooper, the 20th Engineer Brigade’s Commander, and told Leo that he, Cooper, ‘had a great amount of respect for the senator.’ He asked Leo, the most experienced member of the press unit, to make sure that nothing happened to Gore. ‘He requested that "Gore not get into situations that were dangerous,’" said Leo, who did what he could to carry out Cooper’s directive. He described his half-dozen or so trips into the field with Gore as situations where ‘I could have worn a tuxedo.’"(Newsweek, 12/6/99)

While in the Army, Al Gore wrote his parents that the U.S. Army was a "Fascist organization."

Gore got out of Vietnam after 4 1/2 months of a twelve month tour of duty and out of the Army early on the excuse he was going to go to Divinity School. In a couple months he flunked out but did not return to fulfill his Army obligations.