24 May 98 12:04, Jim Sanders wrote to Hal Hanig:
 >> knows?  You might even like the job Gore is going to do for us. (G)
 >> BTW, he
 >> was in the Navy.
 JS>     Shows how much you know of the Gore Family.  He was born in D.C.
 JS> Educated in privates school in DC and college in Ivy league.
 JS>  Was going to Vanderbilt divinity school to avoid the draft
You know that for a fact, of course.  He couldn't possibly have been thinking
about entering the ministry at that point?  I'll be the first to admit that I
haven't the foggiest idea of his purpose in entering Vanderbilt at that 
point. 
Perhaps you'd like to enlighten us with a few facts, as differentiated from
your opinions.
 JS>  when "Papa" Gore decided his career need some military service.
Didn't you leave out something here?  Can I assume that he entered some
military program or other, or was he shanghaied into the service?
 JS>  He was ARMY reporter for a military newspaper in Saigon.
I stand corrected.  I mistakenly thought he had been in the Navy.  But that's
alright, because the Army was also one of the military services in those 
days, 
if I'm not mistaken. Are you suggesting that Saigon was always a fire-free 
zone
in those days?  Wasn't it a wee bit more hazardous than the service performed
by one of our recent former Vice-Presidents, whose valorous performance with
the Indiana National Guard didn't even get him out of the country? Did you 
put 
him down, too, at the time all of that became public?
 JS>  Yet he calls himself a Tennessean...
Why not? He has as much right to call himself a Tennessean as Pres. Bush has 
to
claim to be a Texan, or President Reagan to call himself a Californian.
 JS>      I respect the office of president.  I just do not respect
 JS>  the man holding it.
Your constant parenthetical remarks have made that abundantly clear. But why 
do
you persist in sharing your vitriol with us when most of the readers on this
echo are interested in aviation and/or flying matters? Or am I in the wrong
place?
Hal
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