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a) i was somewhere on route 20 on my way to albany from ithaca to visit the love of my life (at the time). i caught a ride outside of cornell from a guy who was on his way to russell sage to see his sweetie. we could have stayed where we were for another week because every college campus in the us, i believe, was closed until after thanksgiving...
b) i was sitting in the bar of the shaw afb nco club in south carolina visiting with my ex-bunkmate from viet nam. i was on my way to florida to begin college (again) and ended up spending the weekend in sumter...
c) i was working in baltimore at the time and had just gone to sleep before howie the shill made the announcement on mnf...
d) i honestly don't remember where i was...
e) i had just returned the day before from a week's vacation in south padre island, tx. my wife dropped me at the airport in harlingen and continued on to laredo on business. i was watching gma when the report of the first attack came in, saw the second plane hit live, then called auntphil in laredo. she said the border crossing, which was just two blocks from her hotel, was backed up for miles. she ended up driving to houston and waiting for almost a week before she could get a flight back to upstate ny...
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.
Last edited by uncle phil; 07-03-2006 at 12:59 PM..
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