Wild Thing is posting on a reunion for Vietnam era draft dodgers who re-named themselves ‘draft resisters’. The reunion is in Canada.
They seem to be working overtime to redefine their actions as something worthy of anything other than complete contempt.
In complete contrast, she has a wonderful tribute to Vietnam Vets.
Go see it!
July 8th, 2006 at 11:17 pm
The only good thing I can say is that the people here in the U.S. got the Canadians to keep that statue off public property. It has been relegated to someone’s front yard.
July 8th, 2006 at 11:51 pm
That is good. They should have had to keep all the deserters as well. Too bad they got to come back to the US and many of them make a fortune off the American ppl (ie: Richard Dryfuss).
July 20th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
Tony Nozzi Says:
July 20th, 2006 at 3:52 pm
Dear Sirs/Madams:
As a Vietnam veteran I honestly do not have resentment against draft dodgers if they truly claim the conscientious objector status. The Vietnam War was a mistaken tragedy and Vietnam veterans have to honestly recognize this.
However, I will never forgive “Ultimate Cowards†like Ted Nugent who now waves the flag with a pro-war attitide. This is a letter that I recently submitted to the Chicago Sun Times.
Sincerely
Tony Nozzi
pitman10@verizon.net
Flag-waving coward
Publication: Chicago Sun-Times (IL)
Date: June 8, 2006
Author: Tony Nozzi The Chicago Sun-Times
Section: Editorials/Letters
Edition: Final
Page: 38
Word Count: 235
Another picture of Ted Nugent posing with America’s military heroes as if he’s one of them [QT column, June 1]? Evidently he’s since changed the crusty, urine-soaked pants that he wore to his draft board physical or the National Guardsmen would have been posing with their military-issued gas masks.
Nugent claims he’s paid his dues for avoiding the Vietnam draft. How so? By playing his guitar and getting rich while over 58,000 men bled and died for his right to wave his guns around?
Lacking the courage that even conscientious objectors exhibited, he bragged to the Detroit Free Press in 1990 that, “30 days before his draft board physical, he stopped all forms of personal hygiene. The last 10 days he ingested nothing but Vienna Sausages and Pepsi; and a week before his draft board physical, he stopped using bathrooms altogether, virtually living inside pants caked with his own excrement stained by his own urine.â€Â
Nugent’s flag-waving rhetoric won’t change what he did. I’m sure the military men and women with whom he frequently poses are unaware of Nugent’s cowardice. As a Vietnam veteran, I am not swayed by his pathetic justification for his hypocrisy.
Why do the country music stations continue to attack the Dixie Chicks and Jane Fonda while Nugent is idolized as a patriot? Jane Fonda and the Dixie Chicks have more guts and cleaner panties than this phony has-been.
Tony Nozzi, Durand, Ill.
Copyright (c) 2006 Chicago Sun-Times, Inc.
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