I 've realized for a while this be the only way to make any money off me 'woik' (although adding swirl and swing to the text here n there to then aim at the higher priced fashion industry is more like what I have in mind) .. . .care to 'frienchoice' some morcels of mine .. .make my light heavy . .. come on I dare ya.
hey, your characterization of indymedia the site by smash (doesn't know the first thing about the relation between defense and ash) is pretty ok, see the wojtek post on choice at lbo to finesse the subject of 'open' anything, and if combined with not just eye (but rather great big and lots of rockload) opening content behind link at bottom you may start to envision a clue that manifests what well directed forces can do .. . anyway appreciate your sharp tongue is all I'm trying to say and to prove how impressed I am here's a sneak preview for a fresh log entry on ya:
I 've gotten around to reading the comments at the smash guy (links up in last issue, concerning the indymedia poster who provided some advice on sending troops reminders about a little history they should have studied before going on similar missions, though I learn there was a marked difference between vietnam and Korea as far as fragging was concerned), and this lady stood well out of the crowd, in fact, she towered above it and was spot on except for .. .. .well, make up your own mind there, I mean here: http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/ - Language, fraud, folly, truth, history, and knitting. Et cetera.
oh, by the way, fom some time in 2002 (via a google cache):
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/1012.htm "The moral condition of the army was hopeless. You might describe it by saying the army as an army no longer existed. Defeats, retreats, and the rottenness of the ruling group had utterly undermined the troops." -- Leon Trotsky,History of the Russian Revolution (54) The murder of American officers by their troops was an openly proclaimed goal in Vietnam. As one GI newspaper demanded, "Don't desert. Go to Vietnam, and kill your commanding officer." (55) And they did. A new slang term arose to celebrate the execution of officers: fragging. The word came from the fragmentation grenade, which was the weapon of choice because the evidence was destroyed in the act. (56) In every war, troops kill officers whose incompetence or recklessness threatens the lives of their men. But only in Vietnam did this become pervasive in combat situations and widespread in rear base camps. It was the most well-known aspect of the class struggle inside the army, directed not just at intolerable officers, but at "lifers" as a class. In the soldiers' revolt, it became accepted practice to paint political slogans on helmets. A popular helmet slogan summed up this mood: "Kill a non-com for Christ." Fragging was the ransom the ground troops extracted for being used as live bait. (57) No one knows how many officers were fragged, but after Tet it became epidemic. At least 800 to 1,000 fragging attempts using explosive devices were made. The army reported 126 fraggings in 1969, 271 in 1970 and 333 in 1971, when they stopped keeping count. But in that year, just in the American Division (of My Lai fame), one fragging per week took place. Some military estimates are that fraggings occurred at five times the official rate, while officers of the Judge Advocate General Corps believed that only 10 percent of fraggings were reported. These figures do not include officers who were shot in the back by their men and listed as wounded or killed in action. (58) Most fraggings resulted in injuries, although "word of the deaths of officers will bring cheers at troop movies or in bivouacs of certain units." (59) The army admitted that it could not account for how 1,400 officers and noncommissioned officers died. This number, plus the official list of fragging deaths, has been accepted as the unacknowledged army estimate for officers killed by their men. It suggests that 20 to 25 percent -- if not more -- of all officers killed during the war were killed by enlisted men, not the "enemy." This figure has no precedent in the history of war. (60) Soldiers put bounties on officers targeted for fragging. The money, usually between $100 and $1,000, was collected by subscription from among the enlisted men. It was a reward for the soldier who executed the collective decision. The highest bounty for an officer was $10,000, publicly offered by GI Says, a mimeographed bulletin put out in the 101st Airborne Division, for Col. W. Honeycutt, who had ordered the May 1969 attack on Hill 937. The hill had no strategic significance and was immediately abandoned when the battle ended. It became enshrined in GI folklore as Hamburger Hill, because of the 56 men killed and 420 wounded taking it. Despite several fragging attempts, Honeycutt escaped uninjured. (61) As Vietnam GI argued after Hamburger Hill, "Brass are calling this a tremendous victory. We call it a goddam butcher shop... If you want to die so some lifer can get a promotion, go right ahead. (see the rest in 10-22.doc)
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