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----- Original Message -----
From: j1delaney
To: Charles Wilson
Cc: Daniel Smith
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 4:30 PM

How do you think Gore did his time in Viet Nam?
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< AL GORE IN VIET NAM
<? Having posted a little tickler in last week's Digest about Al Gore's 141
<days in Vietnam," The Federalist Editorial Board was inundated with
<inquiries
<from Vietnam? vets. Most went something like this:
<
< "Gore claimed in his convention speech: 'I enlisted in the Army because I
<knew if? I didn't go, someone else in the small town of Carthage, Tennessee
<would have to? go in my place.' Since he wasn't KIA or wounded, how was it
<that his Army tour? was far shorter than all the rest of us?"
<? Our astute veteran readers took the bait!? Gore's campaign launched a
<multimillion-dollar ad campaign this week to tell his "life story." The ads
<will include references? to his service" in Vietnam-however brief. Gore
<spent
<less than five months of a? typical twelve-month tour in Vietnam. He spent
<every minute of his "tour" as a "rear-echelon __________" (call any combat
<veteran and they can complete that phrase? for you). He was classified as a
<military journalist after telling recruiters he was a newspaper trainee"
<(read "copy boy") for the New York Times while a student at? Harvard. He was
<assigned as a non-combatant "information specialist" to the Army's 20th
<Engineers Brigade headquarters at Bien Hoa military base near Saigon.
<? Gore's immediate supervisor in Vietnam has confirmed that his posting
<there
<came with explicit instructions to baby-sit him and make sure he was never
<in
<any? danger. That fact notwithstanding, Gore has claimed to the Washington
<Post that he was "shot at" and "spent most of my time in the field."? He
<later told the Baltimore? Sun that "[I] pulled my turn on the perimeter at
<night and walked through the elephant grass and I was fired upon." He has
<since backed off these exaggerated claims.
<? On May 22, 1971, not five months into his "tour of duty," Gore was given
<special dispensation and a one-way ticket home to attend divinity school in
<Nashville. He dropped out of Vanderbilt shortly thereafter. As for the seven
<months cut from? Gore's tour of duty in Vietnam, we suppose "someone else in
<the small town of? Carthage, Tennessee" had to finish his tour "in his
<place."
<? If everyone sends the above to 7 people, I am positive that we can do some
<good for the COUNTRY.