---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Oct 10, 2006 5:11 PM Subject: Re: PHP Mailer and SMTP = SPAM? To: David Giragosian <dgiragosian@xxxxxxxxx> # dgiragosian@xxxxxxxxx / 2006-10-10 12:49:11 -0500:
Do you realize how many Vietnam war veterans you're offending with what I guess is supposed to be a joke?
Surely not. How could I know how many of those who spilled blood in Vietnam, Cambodia or Laos cannot reflect on their deeds almost 40 years later? I know it's easy for the older parts of our behavioral equipment to take hold esp. in difficult situations, and 18-20 years old guys aren't exactly known as a group with the closest obedience of so-called moral norms (that's quite natural and I would have to damn myself if I weren't forgiving about it). But don't complain it was tough if you were there to murder other people. Sure, we (humans) are weaklings, and easily fall prey to whatever bullshit any drunkard and/or Hitler-wannabe says if they repeat it long enough, but if those Americans who fought in Vietnam didn't elect the government that sent them there then it was their parents, and grandparents. If you get agitated by a joke referring to the US movie and TV cliche they fed us with for 20 years or so, complain to those Americans who voted for the war. The "GM" children born today in Vietnam, mutilated by defoliants sprayed on their parents 35 years ago are shame of those who elected Nixon.
You're in the Czech Republic, I'm guessing by your country code, so maybe
I
should have cut you some slack, but it isn't funny to those of us who went to war or lived through it.
Yes, I'm a citizen of a country that takes part in the running US raid on Middle East. I'm living through a war myself, mind you. Although much closer to the shit than you I'm much calmer these days than when the US Army was raging full-auto all over Europe (the bombing of Bulgaria[!] during the deathmatch in Yugoslavia in the 92-4 or so). Back then it could also have been /my/ roof. If I wanted to have a combative signature I'd be using something like "How many American soldiers does it take to kick a tied-up POW to death in Guantanamo?" or perhaps "American cars run on blood of Iraqi people.", "Operation Enduring Oil" or a variant. But it's just a joke. I freely admit you're not the first to bitch about this signature. You're second. I'm surprised that you're only the second guy to whine! Given how much the situation in Iraq reminds the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by the "brother" armies of several communist countries led by the USSR, how devastated the soldiers were when they realized they weren't the saviors their /politruks/ made them believe... I'm quite surprised the morale is so high. So much for the topic of my signature. It will stay there of course, at least until your country, which BTW recently passed a bill that basically negates the Geneva conventions, attacks my country. Czech republic is lucky enough to have no large amounts of strategic minerals, but will probably be one of the last pieces of land when the US industry and DMCA-controlled SUV-driving consumers unbound by the Kyoto protocol produce enough smog to melt the Antarctida, and land becomes more important than oil. Until then...
Boomers, as in Baby Boomers, were the generation of Americans who fought
in
Vietnam. The folks your closing lines refer to. Do you get it now?
Yeah, Baby Boom is a term known to me. I'm was born in 1975, during a baby boom in Czechoslovakia, predecessor of Czech rep. I'm not used to the capitalization though, and wasn't sure if Boomer wasn't meant as the surname of a person relevant to the rest of your message. Thanks for the clarification.
