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My Brother Raz: From The Brothers' Memoirs_____
(stjohnsprep.org)
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My family did not look forward to our beloved brother Raz leaving home for military service and to war. Here are a few of his memories of life in the Pacific and a few of ours during this time. Read My Brother Raz.
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Nobody Likes a Snitch : About Deep Throat by KT_____
(AFP/File)
| In the movie, Scent of a Woman, Al Pacino, plays the blind retired Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade who gives an impassioned plea for his young friend Charley.
Charley, a scholarship kid, at an exclusive New England prep school has witnessed an act of vandalism by a trio of rich kids. Charley comes to know the very erasable Colonel as he takes a weekend job to baby-sit him at the behest of the Colonel's beleaguered niece with whom Lieutenant Colonel Slade lives. The officer, a troubled and charismatic character, has set up the scene to use Charley to help him get to New York and as he says, "Have one last tour of the battlefield" and then take his own life.
What ensues are some memorable events as only the movies can bring about and culminating in Charley's personal dilemma in being brought before the school's disciplinary committee as a witness to the vandalism.
The good Colonel by this time has had his "tour of the battlefield"(time in New York) and successfully negotiated it and has a somewhat different lease on life. Lieutenant Slade comes to admire the principled young Charley.
Charley refuses to snitch on his classmates. And, when the head master calls Charley a liar and a cover up artist, Colonel Slade says, "But, he's no snitch."
Fast forward to the present news item after all these years, we have the rising from the ashes, the classic snitch of "deep throat" in the long gone Watergate debacle.
It made me smile as I was somewhat surprised at my own reaction. I'm not sure that the 90 year old Felt, then the 2nd in command of the FBI, was really "deep throat" as much as he was just one source for the infamous Watergate cover-up affair. But, he got no points from me for being a snitch. Maybe he was simply a disgruntled person who was passed over for the top FBI job as has been suggested. Or, which is probably closer to the truth: follow the money. The lawyer who negotiated the coming out party for the snitch tried to sell the story and all of us know that a book will be forthcoming; and, of course, the relatives will prosper.
The crux of the matter, in my way of thinking, lies in Lieutenant Colonel Slade's comments to the disciplinary committee, "I don't know if Charley's silence here today is right or wrong. I'm no judge or jury but I can tell you this, he won't sell anybody out to buy his future. And, that my friends is what we call integrity, that is what we call character."
I think that given history, we could probably have gone on without knowing who deep throat was and I'm not sure that Mr. Felt's legacy is much served by it.
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| Ain't Life Grand... |
This ex-ranger; 450 jumps and then a terrorism expert for the Pentagon applied for a terrorism researcher job at the Library of Congress.
He was the top candidate until his interviewer took him out to lunch and the guy proceeded to let his interviewer know; that ,if he got the job, he would be reporting to work as a woman as he was in the middle of this sex change operation.
He/she wasn’t offered the job and is suing.
Can you believe this? The person is not even from San Francisco.
What a great country we live in!!! God bless America
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American Casualty Report in Iraq
Thanks to Keyvan Minoukadeh
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