From: flyn3nvt@adelphia.net
Date: Fri May 20 2005 - 03:37:31 PDT
how about "Wanna be?" all "I wanna be" is a person who preserves a little history of a un popular war and to help correct the wrong doing that some of the Citizens in this country did to its returning fighting men.
---- tsgcdo Dragisich <tsgcdo@msn.com> wrote:
> Jonathan,
>
> Interesting post. I'm curious about the term "purists" that you used. What
> is your definition of a "purist"?
>
> TIA,
>
> Mike Dragisich
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jonathan Boos" <acfarer@cox.net>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 2:20 PM
> Subject: [MV] Honor and respect for history
>
>
> > I've gotta weigh in here. It seems that every so often, someone on this
> > list
> > slings mud or get his/her feelings hurt and it starts a whole doodoo storm
> > of posts and leaves the purists (see off topic posts) with a knot in thier
> > knickers.
> >
> > While this thread is not off topic, I think that the folks who consider
> > re-inacting a farce or somehow offensive or disrespectful should realize
> > that THE WHOLE REASON FOR THIS LIST is so folks can share thier bit of
> > history and re-inact to some degree themselves. Why the passion for
> > collecting "Green Iron"? Don't even start to tell me that they have them
> > for
> > the mileage or that they ride better than a Lexus or even a Hyudai for
> > that
> > matter. We all collect them out of reverence of what they represent. The
> > mightyest country the planet has ever known and the men and women who
> > drove
> > them in theater. Now there may be "wanna-be" folks out there, but I defy
> > you
> > to find one on this list. Let get back to sharing our hobby instead of
> > infighting.
> > My $.02
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> >
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