Former US Senator Max Cleland went into politics in Georgia in 1970, winning election to the state Senate less than three years after a grenade dropped by a fellow soldier in Vietnam nearly killed him. The explosion blew off both of Cleland's legs and his right arm, and he needed a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Jimmy Carter appointed Cleland in 1977 to be administrator of the Veterans Administration (now the Department of Veterans Affairs), and after that Cleland served as Georgia's secretary of state, and when Sam Nunn retired from the Senate, Cleland won his seat in 1996.
It was real hard to watch. I lost friends who were drafted straight out of high school. Though produced with Ken Burns’s usual excellence, I’ll never watch it again.
I think he was an actual, what do you call it, oh yes, a public servant. How quaint. So old-school. He acted upon what he thought was the right thing to do, not necessarily the thing that would advance his political career. He was never ever meant for times like these.
The documentary is actually pretty even handed. Nobody comes out of it as a hero, especially not the leadership. There are heroic actions in it, but they are all necessitated by tragic decisions and woeful underestimation of the opposing force.
Just an aside, one of my bookshop clients ages ago was an OG reporter for the Enquirer (I know! He had substantiated goss though.) He told me that NB was a total schtick, that she didn't believe a word of what she said/published. I believe him
Thanks from me as well, Dok. My Pop was a career Marine in WW2, Korea, and Vietnam, and ultimately died due to VA malpractice. Just ordered Sen. Cleland's book
Was it the comic Richard Belzer who called Ann Coulter "Nazi Barbie"? Whoever it was, the handle stuck to her (and has since been modified to apply to other women of her ilk). I know it's been years, but whenever someone brings her up in conversation I inevitably think or say aloud "That Nazi Barbie? Why is she still relevant?"
When Max Cleland lost to Saxby Chambliss, I was so angry that I wrote a strongly worded letter to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that they actually published. I was told by my then-employer never to do that again. No regrets.
I grew up on bases, (my parents were teachers in the schools overseas).
When I was a senior in HS, I worked in the Pass and ID office in England, taking pictures, and making ID cards.When I would notice someone who WAS MY AGE, I was stunned, and it made me feel sad.So young.They were just, (very polite and well-behaved), teenagers!
(I had to stop watching that doc. in the middle. Glad I was a lot younger when they were going to Vietnam.)
Shit, I hadn't heard a word about that.
Maher is a vile sack of shit as well so they were probably a good match.
And Harry Dean Stanton
It was real hard to watch. I lost friends who were drafted straight out of high school. Though produced with Ken Burns’s usual excellence, I’ll never watch it again.
Yep. I remember Donald Segretti, one of Nixon’s criminals, as perhaps the original ratfucker.
I think he was an actual, what do you call it, oh yes, a public servant. How quaint. So old-school. He acted upon what he thought was the right thing to do, not necessarily the thing that would advance his political career. He was never ever meant for times like these.
RIP, Max Cleland, and thank you for your service.
The documentary is actually pretty even handed. Nobody comes out of it as a hero, especially not the leadership. There are heroic actions in it, but they are all necessitated by tragic decisions and woeful underestimation of the opposing force.
Just an aside, one of my bookshop clients ages ago was an OG reporter for the Enquirer (I know! He had substantiated goss though.) He told me that NB was a total schtick, that she didn't believe a word of what she said/published. I believe him
Thanks from me as well, Dok. My Pop was a career Marine in WW2, Korea, and Vietnam, and ultimately died due to VA malpractice. Just ordered Sen. Cleland's book
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Was it the comic Richard Belzer who called Ann Coulter "Nazi Barbie"? Whoever it was, the handle stuck to her (and has since been modified to apply to other women of her ilk). I know it's been years, but whenever someone brings her up in conversation I inevitably think or say aloud "That Nazi Barbie? Why is she still relevant?"
When Max Cleland lost to Saxby Chambliss, I was so angry that I wrote a strongly worded letter to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that they actually published. I was told by my then-employer never to do that again. No regrets.
R'amen, my father never got over what he saw when helping liberate the camps, in WWll, he had nightmares about it 50 years later..
aw fuck, I am so sorry. *Hugs* if you want them.
Always was, always will be.
I grew up on bases, (my parents were teachers in the schools overseas).
When I was a senior in HS, I worked in the Pass and ID office in England, taking pictures, and making ID cards.When I would notice someone who WAS MY AGE, I was stunned, and it made me feel sad.So young.They were just, (very polite and well-behaved), teenagers!
(I had to stop watching that doc. in the middle. Glad I was a lot younger when they were going to Vietnam.)