Old Soldiers Never Die, They Just Leave Alot of Bad Shit

[Henry Musikar]

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Henry Mu
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-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Allonby

That might be because he knew that there were American serviceman
living in Viet Nam. It would be embarrassing to their families, the
government, and a lot of other people to confront the fact that they
had lives, families, and even grandchildren and were not being held in
prison camps.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Henry Mu wrote:
> Don't forget that McCain, practically single-handedly, blocked efforts to
> find American MIAs.
>
> Henry Mu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Allonby
>
> I'm no longer amused by mouth-breathers who rant about the lack of
> Vietnamese cooperation in finding American MIAs. The Vietnamese are
> missing over a million people from that war. If they can't even find
> their own, I think they have been remarkably helpful in helping us
> find ours. Very few of their missing soldiers were found in bachelor
> pads in Manhattan.
>
> Most of the American MIAs were downed pilots whose bodies were
> unrecoverable. The others are a different story. Americans seem to
> have an impossible time coming to grips with the idea that a young man
> might choose to stay behind in a communist or enemy country because a
> pretty girl was nice to him for the first time in his life. They have
> them in every war. They're called deserters.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Daniel Cape wrote:
>> Vietnam's problems with UXO (UneXploded Ordnance) pale in comparison
>> with poor old Laos. More tonnage dropped on this wee agrarian
>> less-famous-Indochine Commie state than WWII combined 'pparently.
>> I stayed at a hostel by the Mekong that had a fence made of old
>> shells, clambered happily on a Soviet tank that met its end in a
>> farmer's bean patch, and sat ruminating in ancient megalithic jars
>> split open by strafing warplanes and hi-xplosive. Meanwhile hundreds
>> of Laoitians (sp?) a year get maimed in paddies and playgrounds by
>> rusted cluster(fucks)bombs.
>>
>> 2009/8/1 rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>:
>>> It will be another 300 years and cost more than $10 billion to clear
>>> the bombs, shells and mines left behind by the Vietnam War, Vietnamese
>>> officials say. Bombs and mines have killed or maimed more than 22,000
>>> people since the end of hostilities in 1975.
>>>
>>> Reuters