pynchon-l-digest V1 #61

[Peter Trachtenberg]

Not only was O'Brien present, he served at what later became known as My Lai.

On Sat, 15 Jun 1996, Bob Norton wrote:

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> >> 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. 
> >> 
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> >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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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>                                                                 Bob N.
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