Posted on 08/27/2007 2:48:05 PM PDT by MC Miker G
“Is this true?”
I read the piece in the Detroit Free Press. Sounds like it was true, or at least Ted wanted them to think it was. He made a comment about not trusting himself in a foxhole with a bunch of hippies. Something to the effect of, “I would have tried to kill everybody”.
Big difference between a rock-star that has seen the error of his ways and repented and a slimey guy who became president, did all in his power to undermine the military (eg homos in the shower with the boys), and used the military in Kosovo to cover his sexual predation charges of a child intern.
I remember reading something about it in one of the music magazines when I was in high school.
I'd say it matters more what Ted is like today than yesterday. This would only be relevant if Ted were still a hippie liberal.
It mattered for Clinton because he was and still is a hippie liberal.
obviously the military would not want someone
not toilet trained.
universities,
yes.
Do you know i’ve seen a thousand versions of that recruiting story?
“The VC actually offered a peace after the Tet offensive failed but were refused by Washington.”
Hell, the VC were all but-wiped out during Tet. If the VC made a peace offer after Tet it was the last surviving VC climbing out of a hole with his hands raised over his head who made it.
crusty bump
“Even though those Vets knew the game was fixed from day one,”
What in the world are you guys going on about, it isn’t making sense.
Found that as well, seems so ludicrous of an attempt wouldn't they see through that.
Or maybe it's true.
“Do you know i’ve seen a thousand versions of that recruiting story?”
You wouldn’t believe the stuff that was going on at the draft board centers during those years, worse, funnier, and more bizarre, and more common than you probably know, (if you didn’t spend a lot of time there).
I too found references to a Free Press article (dated July 15, 1990).
There are tons of Free Press articles mentioning Ted Nugent dating back to the 1980s found using http://nl.newsbank.com/
A search of the Free Press articles found no such July 15, 1990 article. There were July 3, 1990 and August 9, 1990 articles plus several more that year in other months.
You can read the first paragraph but must purchase the whole article. Nothing in the first paragraph suggested that the subject matter was his personal early experiences.
Are these more leftists' Stalinist lies? It is what they do.
“I went for the one million others who went...”
I went because my orders said to. I found that reason enough.
You aren’t crazy. Glad you made it back.
Ted’s a nut case. He showed yellow when his country needed him. F@@k Ted.
Talk to any Viet vet and you`ll know what I mean.
But there were good men fighting and dying then as there are today. We believed in that effort even though betrayed by our country and history has proven us RIGHT. It was a just war, the shame is upon those who betrayed the effort, and those who failed to answer the call. Many of us VOLUNTEERED, say that word in your mind again: VOLUNTEERED. We weren’t stupid nor ignorant of history; we were not brainless automatons and to this day, I hate with a passion the whole hippie movement and liberal mindset, it is a treacherous thing, a mental disorder.
Today’s Army (Marines/USCG/USAF/Navy) is the finest bar none. They persevere beyond the betrayal by the Congress and Senate, continuing to fight for total strangers, following their commander’s orders, fighting for their buddies to right and to the left of them and everyone damned one of them VOLUNTEERED.
Ted is trying to make amends and that is good, but someone filled his place that he was supposed to have done. Someone took his place, maybe willingly but maybe not. Nevertheless, someone did so and God bless that person.
But we must remember too that Ted is working hard to make right that which he did wrong. He’s raised the morale of the troops everywhere that he has been and performed. He has personally visited wounded soldiers at BAMC among other places, numerous times, and given generously of his wealth to good causes striving to improve their lot, their treatment facilities and many other benefits. In that way, I think that Ted has more than made up for that glitch in his life and I will honor him for that always and be thankful for his generosity which I believe is given freely and VOLUNTARILY. They are not stupid either, or automatons.
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