Re: WANNABE HUNTERS

[<RonaldS842@aol.com>]

In a message dated 7/8/01 3:31:03 PM, Decaturvlp@aol.com writes:

<< SO, I THINK IT WAS HARDER BACK THEN TO TRY AND BE A "WANNABEE"...... 
 >>

   Hey Tony, are you implying that the only thing that stops many of us from 
being phony is the fear of exposure? Should we feel sorry for these guys or 
contempt?
   This conversation intrigues me. Allow me to ramble some here. If you are 
bored you can hit the delete button. I won't care, Hell, I won't even know. 
  When I went into the Air Force in 1950 the FBI came to my hometown and 
extensively interviewed several people in town including my high school 
principle, my football coach, neighbors etc., etc. This file has got to be 
around somewhere.  I'm sure this alerted everyone in a small town as to the 
importance of the work I was going to be doing and although I didn't know it 
until many years later, it still makes me feel proud. (my dad told me many 
years later) 
   You know, in all these years I never talked about anything I was doing to 
anyone during the Korean War.  Not to my parents, relatives, anyone. I've 
shared more here than I did in all those years. It is interesting to 
speculate why. I understand the AGENCY monitors all these electonic particles 
floating through the air and picks up on key words for anaylsis. Well, guys, 
here is one you can wrestle with, "WZD". (this isn't going to jeopardize 
anything anymore :-)
   I don't know. I guess as we get older we feel a compelling desire to 
record for posterity information about our lives we feel significant. IMHO 
too much stuff is lost to history. As long as we are convinced it's not going 
to hurt anyone, tell it.
   But that is very different from the "wannabes". One is about pride, the 
other is a kind of sickness. 
   Did anyone see on the History Channel the story of the Air Force "weasels" 
in Vietnam? Mike? Wow!!

Ron