Date:         Wed, 19 Sep 2001 14:11:45 -0500
Reply-To:     John Rodgers <jhrodgers@CHARTER.NET>
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From:         John Rodgers <jhrodgers@CHARTER.NET>
Subject:      Re: Afghanistan -- no  content
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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