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----- Forwarded by Dan J Hyvl/HOU/ECT on 10/30/2000 09:20 AM -----
Bettye Langham <Bettye.Langham@excite.com< 10/29/2000 09:33 PM To: tba007@aol.com, andrew_vaughan@dell.com, acv13@juno.com, letsswim@juno.com, rmurphy@anthonysylvan.com, dan.j.hyvl@enron.com, cole@texas.net cc: Subject: Fwd: Fw: _______________________________________________________ Say Bye to Slow Internet! http://www.home.com/xinbox/signup.html ? ----- 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? < < 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.
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