Re: [MV] Honor and respect for history

From: Jonathan Boos (acfarer@cox.net)
Date: Fri May 20 2005 - 05:29:18 PDT


Robert Di Nero in Taxi Driver comes to mind as a "wanna be" Peace Officer.
Can't make the cut to be one so he goes off the deep end to act like one.

----- Original Message -----
From: <flyn3nvt@adelphia.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 3:37 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Honor and respect for history

> how about "Wanna be?" all "I wanna be" is a person who preserves a
> little history of a un popular war and to help correct the wrong doing
> that some of the Citizens in this country did to its returning fighting
> men.
> ---- tsgcdo Dragisich <tsgcdo@msn.com> wrote:
>> Jonathan,
>>
>> Interesting post. I'm curious about the term "purists" that you used.
>> What
>> is your definition of a "purist"?
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Mike Dragisich
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jonathan Boos" <acfarer@cox.net>
>> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 2:20 PM
>> Subject: [MV] Honor and respect for history
>>
>>
>> > I've gotta weigh in here. It seems that every so often, someone on this
>> > list
>> > slings mud or get his/her feelings hurt and it starts a whole doodoo
>> > storm
>> > of posts and leaves the purists (see off topic posts) with a knot in
>> > thier
>> > knickers.
>> >
>> > While this thread is not off topic, I think that the folks who consider
>> > re-inacting a farce or somehow offensive or disrespectful should
>> > realize
>> > that THE WHOLE REASON FOR THIS LIST is so folks can share thier bit of
>> > history and re-inact to some degree themselves. Why the passion for
>> > collecting "Green Iron"? Don't even start to tell me that they have
>> > them
>> > for
>> > the mileage or that they ride better than a Lexus or even a Hyudai for
>> > that
>> > matter. We all collect them out of reverence of what they represent.
>> > The
>> > mightyest country the planet has ever known and the men and women who
>> > drove
>> > them in theater. Now there may be "wanna-be" folks out there, but I
>> > defy
>> > you
>> > to find one on this list. Let get back to sharing our hobby instead of
>> > infighting.
>> > My $.02
>> >
>> > Jonathan
>> >
>> >
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