Danny gets down...

pettyfog · Dec 17, 2006

.. to the core of the issue!

Beat down.. viva Bonaduce!
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meanwhile, in a more serious vein, Pat Conroy, Author of "Prince of Tides", former VietNam war protestor gets a little maudlin:

"Al, you know I was a draft dodger and antiwar demonstrator."

I had a small role in organizing the only antiwar demonstration ever held in Beaufort, South Carolina, the home of Parris Island and the Marine Corps Air Station. In a Marine Corps town at that time, it was difficult to come up with a quorum of people who had even minor disagreements about the Vietnam War. But my small group managed to attract a crowd of about 150 to Beaufort's waterfront.

With my mother {Note: the wife of 'The Great Santini' } and my wife on either side of me, we listened to the featured speaker, Dr. Howard Levy, suggest to the very few young enlisted Marines present that if they get sent to Vietnam, here's how they can help end this war: Roll a grenade under your officer's bunk when he's asleep in his tent.

It's called fragging and is becoming more and more popular with the ground troops who know this war is bullshit. I was enraged by the suggestion. At that very moment my father, a Marine officer, was asleep in Vietnam. But in 1972, at the age of 27, I thought I was serving America's interests by pointing out what massive flaws and miscalculations and corruptions had led her to conduct a ground war in Southeast Asia.
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