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Adrian Cronauer, depicted in 'Good Morning, Vietnam,' dies at 79
Roanoke Times ^
| July 20, 2018
| Henry Gendreau
Posted on 07/19/2018 8:55:16 AM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA
I used to listen to a lot of AFRTS while on Okinawa. I even recorded a reel to reel tape off the radio. Wish I still had it.
To: 11th_VA
I knew Cronauer after he became a communications lawyer in Washington, DC. Very nice guy. Sorry to hear this.
To: A_Former_Democrat
That wouldn’t have altered his getting Lewy body dementia.
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posted on
07/19/2018 9:44:28 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
("It's Slappin' Time !")
To: 11th_VA
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posted on
07/19/2018 9:49:43 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I Wish you still had those tapes too ...
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posted on
07/19/2018 9:50:57 AM PDT
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11th_VA
(ItÂ’s the Enforcement Stupid)
To: dfwgator
yep! Something a lot of folks do not know.
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posted on
07/19/2018 9:56:46 AM PDT
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BBell
(Antifa are like house cats. One squirt from a squirt bottle and they scatter.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
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posted on
07/19/2018 9:58:06 AM PDT
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11th_VA
(ItÂ’s the Enforcement Stupid)
To: 11th_VA
I look all over the Internet for old shortwave archives. Old AFRTS broadcasts would be a goldmine.
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07/19/2018 9:58:16 AM PDT
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: A_Former_Democrat
Ahhhh...Robin Williams had some serious mental conditions that most likely altered his mind to the point of madness.
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07/19/2018 9:58:34 AM PDT
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BBell
(Antifa are like house cats. One squirt from a squirt bottle and they scatter.)
To: 11th_VA
Thanks for the trip back to the 50s/early 60s...
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07/19/2018 9:59:53 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: MrEdd
One thing that clicked in me immediately when Williams died was that Jonathan Winters had just died the previous year and the two of them were very close.
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posted on
07/19/2018 10:01:00 AM PDT
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BBell
(Antifa are like house cats. One squirt from a squirt bottle and they scatter.)
To: BBell
See post 20.
Williams didn’t want to go through dying from Parkinson’s disease alone.
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posted on
07/19/2018 10:05:55 AM PDT
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MrEdd
(Caveat Emptor)
To: MrEdd
I thought it was much worse than just Parkinsons.
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posted on
07/19/2018 10:06:46 AM PDT
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: 11th_VA
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posted on
07/19/2018 10:07:03 AM PDT
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Mr.Unique
(The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
To: dfwgator
Jonathan Winters had a severe case of Parkinson’s.
As far as Williams knew, his own would be as bad.
By the time information on the Parkinson’s disease diagnosis was released, a lot of speculations had been made. Those weren’t necessarily accurate.
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07/19/2018 10:17:18 AM PDT
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MrEdd
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To: MrEdd
Hasn’t Michael J. Fox had Parkinson’s for years?
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07/19/2018 10:18:21 AM PDT
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I listened to AFVN-FM in Vietnam. AFVN-AM was all rock & roll, but AFVN-FM played easy listening during the day, and classical at night. Still have some cassettes of easy listening which my Dad recorded.
Adrian Cronauer had quite a life after Vietnam helping vets. RIP.
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07/19/2018 10:21:24 AM PDT
by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
To: 11th_VA
As I recall part of that was also based on others who were there at the time including Pat Sajack.
To: dfwgator
He has. But it took Jonathan Winters out in a shorter time, and it can be a miserable way to die.
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07/19/2018 10:26:55 AM PDT
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MrEdd
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To: elcid1970
but AFVN-FM played easy listening during the day, and classical at night. Still have some cassettes of easy listening which my Dad recorded."Eddie Kirk here, and Ray Conniff jubilee coming up in just a few moments. I call it a jubilee. Actually, it's a Ray Conniff featurette. Three, maybe four, back-to-back Ray Conniff classics."
As a kid who had to endure my Dad playing Ray Conniff albums ad nauseum, I could relate.
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07/19/2018 10:36:44 AM PDT
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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