Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/13

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Lee Harvey Oswald
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Fri Oct 13 15:38:42 2006
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Yes, you are absolutely right. I really worry what we will have to face 
from the fellows(and women) who have be dragged through the Iraq 
debacle. Can you imagine, A female Charles Whitman?

Ric Carter wrote:

>
>
> On Oct 13, 2006, at 5:07 PM, Walt Johnson wrote:
>
>> You must realize more innocents are killed by draft dodgers and ex- 
>> navy rejects than by former Marines.
>
>
> In all fairness, on active duty guys should be included in any  
> formulation on innocents harmed.
>
>
>
>>   We just have a bad reputation because we know about yardage,  
>> windage, etc. Whitman, btw, had a medical problem so he has to be  
>> excused.
>
>
> "There was a rumor,
> about a tumor,
> nestled at the base of his brain..."
> --Kinky
>
> ric
>
>
>> Hells bells, the NYPD shoot more unarmed black youths in a year  than 
>> all the ex military combined.
>>
>> Jeffery Smith wrote:
>>
>>> He also brought up Charles Whitman, the UT sniper who killed a  
>>> bunch of people in the 60's (also an ex-marine).
>>> -- 
>>> Jeffery
>>>
>>> ---- Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin@optonline.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Oct 13, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Walt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, I was in the Marines when that happened. If Jesus showed  
>>>>>> up  at my
>>>>>> font door and said "Walt, trust me, Oswald did it alone" I'd  
>>>>>> have to
>>>>>> call him a liar.
>>>>>>
>>>> What was that line from "Full Metal Jacket"? I paraphrase here   
>>>> because my memory is a bit fuzzy but I recall the marine rifle   
>>>> instructor informing his trainees that:
>>>>
>>>> "Lee Harvey Oswald got off two shots in a second and a half and  
>>>> hit  President Kennedy at a distance of two hundred yards. AND HE  
>>>> WAS A  MARINE!"
>>>>
>>>> Larry Z
>>>>
>>>>
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In reply to: Message from jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith) ([Leica] Re: Lee Harvey Oswald)
Message from walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson) ([Leica] Re: Lee Harvey Oswald)
Message from ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter) ([Leica] Re: Lee Harvey Oswald)