Yeh! John Rico Sapolich wrote: > In a message dated 9/18/01 11:32:52 PM, jhrodgers@CHARTER.NET writes: > > << Cool Stuff. Good web page about Afganistan. I can remember as a kid reading > about the battles in the Kyber Pass and thing how brave and romatic and > wonderful it all was .......food for a kids imagination, but then growing up > brings understanding of the reality. >> > > Now, just imagine it with a musical underscore of good ol' American rock n' > roll. I can see it all: those ballcap-bedecked, soft suburban bodies lined > up in front of the recruitment office at the mall jockeying to be first on > queue; sons of physicians dropping out of premed programs all over the > country so that they can become grunts (medicine is no fun anymore anyway, > ask any MD, but don't tell their sons); and our daughters in the Khyber pass > fighting side by side with our boys just like the Israeli women would do to > protect their own freedom. My vision is still rather ethereal, only an > effluvium rising from a patriotic quagmire, but gaining substance daily. > Tomorrow, I go to the optometrist. I want him to fit me with a pair of those > eyeglasses which are made in Viet Nam; I think those might bring everything > into focus. > > Rich |
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