Obviously, your new 'puter keyboard has a built-in spelling deficiency, especially when it comes to first names! Oh well, I've been called a lot worse - remember one time when my drill sergeant..... don't want to go back there!
12 Step Program and Vulnerability to Communist Propaganda? No, but there is a true and proven connection between a 12 Step Program and Successfully Yanking Another's Leg in Jest. It worked. :re:
And I would encourage you to put away your very broad brush about how we all hated the Vietnamese. You can either speak for yourself, or unjustly malign many others that don't subscribe to your attitude. I categorically deny this hating of the Vietnamese, and my various citations, my volunteering to teach civilians in my off-duty time, my very basic ethos would absolutely preclude me from hating them. What I hated was the violence that the communists brought to the country, the corruption that our flooding the country with money produced, the political venality of the LBJ administration, and grandstanding officers who stood on the shoulders of others to make themselves look good.
All this confession comes from a position of rigorous honesty after a fearless moral inventory, as called for by our AA program.
And I don't think that your self-inflicted halo for open-mindedness is wearing too well - the tarnishing is getting a bit apparent! And believe it or not, forgiveness, compassion, and tolerance are VERY big words, and more important, VERY big actions and deeds, here in Texas.
