pynchon-l-digest V1 #61

[Bob Norton]

>> We should not forget that when Bill Clinton went to France for the 50th
>> anniversary of D-Day, he had some of his people knock over grave markers so
>> that he could be photographed straightening them back up. He also stole the
>> pebbles on some tombstones so that he could be photgraphed putting them on
>> other ones in a lame imitation of an old Jewish ritual to honor the dead.
>> This was observed by several Congressmen who commented on the matter before
>> Congress but the news media chose not to touch this one at all. 
>> 
>
>Interesting. I'm curious as to where you got this information. I assume 
>you didn't personally see it. Which congressmen saw it? Who did they 
>report it to? Fascinating bit of info if it can be verified in some way. 
>
>grip

In a way, I did. I saw it either on CSPAN or CSPAN2 the week after D-Day in
'94. I've been searching the Congressional Record for a cite but I think
that it may have been struck from the record, as the dems were in control
then and the Speaker of the House got HIGHLY agitated about it. CR's search
engine is almost worthless, but I'm still looking. About a week after seeing
it on CSPAN, the Rep was quoted, verbatim, in the "Conspiracy Nation" email
newsletter. Their archive for '94 is very incomplete and not machine
searchable, but I'm still looking. I'll post here if I can find anything
hard. Wish I'd taped it.

While I'm here, I gotta add that I'm a Nam vet and my favorite Nam films are
84 Charlie Mopic and Apocalypse Now (for its accurate level of surrealism
rather than its plot). I thought Going After Cacciato was possibly the most
inauthentic novel to come out of the war. Was O'Brien ever actually there?
It's full of errors that would never get by someone who actually was.
                                                                Bob N.

 
                                                                Bob N.