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Do You Agree With Actor Val Kilmer About Most Vietnam Vets?"I understand it more. It’s an actor’s job. A guy who’s lived through the horror of Vietnam has not spent his life preparing his mind for it. He’s some punk. Most guys were borderline criminal or poor, and that’s why they got sent to Vietnam. It was all the poor, wretched kids who got beat up by their dads, guys who didn’t get on the football team, couldn’t finagle a scholarship. They didn’t have the emotional equipment to handle that experience. But this is what an actor trains to do. I can more effectively represent that kid in Vietnam than a guy who was there."
Guys like Val Kilmer will be performing fellatio on Satan in hell before he ever gets a run at anything modestly resembeling credibility.
Only twenty-five (25) percent of the total United States forces serving in Vietnam were draftees as compared to sixty-six (66) percent during World War II.
88.4% of the men who actually served in Vietnam were Caucasian.
10.6% of the men who actually served in Vietnam were Black.
1% of the men who actually served in Vietnam were of other races.
86.3% of the men who died in Vietnam were Caucasian (includes Hispanics).
12.5% of the men who died in Vietnam were Black.
1.2% of the men who died in Vietnam were of other races.
Source: Vietnam Veterans of America, Speakers Bureau Handbook provided by the Public Affairs Committee
Great post! Here are a few more!
76% of the men sent to Vietnam were from middle/working
class backgrounds
75% had family incomes above the poverty level
23% had fathers with professional, managerial, or technical occupations.
79% of the men who served in 'Nam had a high school education or better.
63% of Korean vets had completed high school upon separation from the service)
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I am so astonished on how conservatives always want to punish someone for executing their rights. Especially those of you that took the oath to protect those rights. You are the ones that protect it,except that even though you disagree with his points he is not being unpatriotic.
One million times a fool and one million times an ingrate could not describe some people better.
Well, at least it's better than the conservative's idea of punishment... weren't a few conservatives (on another thread) asking why water-boarding is considered torture? Guess we have two extreme definitions of the word "punishment," and I'll happily choose the liberal one.
"Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
[quote=my54ford;7356607]Great post! Here are a few more!
76% of the men sent to Vietnam were from middle/working
class backgrounds
75% had family incomes above the poverty level
23% had fathers with professional, managerial, or technical occupations.
79% of the men who served in 'Nam had a high school education or better.
63% of Korean vets had completed high school upon separation from the service)
Professional Football Player. 1st Lt. in the Army Reserve (Unit: A BTRY, 2ND BN, 11TH ARTY RGT, 101 ABN DIV in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma). Bob was born James Robert Kalsu and attended Del City High School in Del City, Oklahoma. At 6'3" and 235 pounds, he was an All-American offensive tackle in 1967 as the University of Oklahoma won the Big Eight Conference title. The Buffalo Bills selected him
This MAN is from my home town.
Our HIgh school football stadium is named in honor of him
So much for poor wretched, abused and illiterate.
Hum, two tours my self. High school, already employed and married. Didnt have a dad who abused me and I wasn't a criminal. In fact came out of the army into a career in LE for 25 years.
Go blow your nose Val, you couldn't hold the johnny detail without help.....
How many more a** holes in Hollywood am I going to have to "boycott"?!
Tom Cruise
Mel Gibson
Val Kilmer
Geesh! What a jerk.
There are many celebrities, who do support veterans and our military. Actor Gary Sinise (Lt. Dan) is one of my favorites.
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He'll do anything for a laugh -- even insult dead troops
