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by: Mack A. Damia - Mon, 26 Dec 2022 09:48 UTC

I ate Christmas dinner with Rev. Billy Graham in 1968 at Tan Son Nhut
Air Base, RVN. Here he is just about to sit at my table.

https://i.ibb.co/4Yhcdc3/Rev-Billy-Graham.jpg

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by: Spam-I-Am - Mon, 26 Dec 2022 11:57 UTC

On Monday, December 26, 2022 at 4:48:40 AM UTC-5, Mack A. Damia wrote:
> I ate Christmas dinner with Rev. Billy Graham in 1968 at Tan Son Nhut
> Air Base, RVN. Here he is just about to sit at my table.
>
> https://i.ibb.co/4Yhcdc3/Rev-Billy-Graham.jpg

That had to have been quite an experience.

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by: W-Dockery - Mon, 26 Dec 2022 13:56 UTC

Mack A. Damia wrote:

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> I ate Christmas dinner with Rev. Billy Graham in 1968 at Tan Son Nhut
> Air Base, RVN. Here he is just about to sit at my table.

> https://i.ibb.co/4Yhcdc3/Rev-Billy-Graham.jpg

Hello Mack, I spent some of my Christmas last night revisiting an older family member's years in Vietnam, 1966-68, looking at photos of his time in the Riverines.

Quite a few good photos and excellent storyline, I'm encouraging him to put out a book or at least a website of these photos and memories.

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by: Mack A. Damia - Mon, 26 Dec 2022 16:43 UTC

On Mon, 26 Dec 2022 13:56:11 +0000, parnellos.pizza@gmail.com
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>Mack A. Damia wrote:
>
>>
>> I ate Christmas dinner with Rev. Billy Graham in 1968 at Tan Son Nhut
>> Air Base, RVN. Here he is just about to sit at my table.
>
>> https://i.ibb.co/4Yhcdc3/Rev-Billy-Graham.jpg
>
>Hello Mack, I spent some of my Christmas last night revisiting an older family member's years in Vietnam, 1966-68, looking at photos of his time in the Riverines.
>
>Quite a few good photos and excellent storyline, I'm encouraging him to put out a book or at least a website of these photos and memories.

That's a good idea. I have some photos, but but they are really not
that interesting. Many of my photos are still on 35mm slides, and
they would have to be converted to hard copies. Can get expensive.

But it is a project to think about. Always looking for meaningful
ideas.

The Billy Graham photo was a slide that I got enlarged on a hard copy.
I am always sorry that I could not focus it better. It happened so
quickly; I wasn't expecting it.

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On Monday, December 26, 2022 at 4:48:40 AM UTC-5, Mack A. Damia wrote:
> I ate Christmas dinner with Rev. Billy Graham in 1968

Damn shame he didn't do anything about your personality problems.

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by: Family Guy - Mon, 26 Dec 2022 20:20 UTC

On Monday, December 26, 2022 at 9:00:12 AM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> Mack A. Damia wrote:
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> > I ate Christmas dinner with Rev. Billy Graham in 1968 at Tan Son Nhut
> > Air Base, RVN. Here he is just about to sit at my table.
>
> > https://i.ibb.co/4Yhcdc3/Rev-Billy-Graham.jpg
> Hello Mack, I spent some of my Christmas last night revisiting an older family member's years in Vietnam, 1966-68, looking at photos of his time in the Riverines.

....While you spent your Christmas morning trolling AAPC.

>
> Quite a few good photos and excellent storyline, I'm encouraging him to put out a book or at least a website of these photos and memories.

I'm encouraging you to die in a fire.

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by: Will Dockery - Mon, 26 Dec 2022 21:28 UTC

Mack A. Damia wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:
>>Mack A. Damia wrote:
>
>>> I ate Christmas dinner with Rev. Billy Graham in 1968 at Tan Son Nhut
>>> Air Base, RVN. Here he is just about to sit at my table.
>>
>>> https://i.ibb.co/4Yhcdc3/Rev-Billy-Graham.jpg
>>
>>Hello Mack, I spent some of my Christmas last night revisiting an older family member's years in Vietnam, 1966-68, looking at photos of his time in the Riverines.
>>
>>Quite a few good photos and excellent storyline, I'm encouraging him to put out a book or at least a website of these photos and memories.

> That's a good idea. I have some photos, but but they are really not
> that interesting. Many of my photos are still on 35mm slides, and
> they would have to be converted to hard copies. Can get expensive.

> But it is a project to think about. Always looking for meaningful
> ideas.

> The Billy Graham photo was a slide that I got enlarged on a hard copy.
> I am always sorry that I could not focus it better. It happened so
> quickly; I wasn't expecting it.

With the filters now available on the internet, you might be able to get more focus, lighten the eyes, and so on.

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> On Monday, December 26, 2022 at 4:48:40 AM UTC-5, Mack A. Damia wrote:
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>> I ate Christmas dinner with Rev. Billy Graham in 1968 at Tan Son Nhut
>> Air Base, RVN. Here he is just about to sit at my table.
>>
>> https://i.ibb.co/4Yhcdc3/Rev-Billy-Graham.jpg

> That had to have been quite an experience.

Agreed.

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by: Will Dockery - Tue, 27 Dec 2022 06:19 UTC

On Monday, December 26, 2022 at 4:48:40 AM UTC-5, Mack A. Damia wrote:
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> Air Base, RVN. Here he is just about to sit at my table.
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> https://i.ibb.co/4Yhcdc3/Rev-Billy-Graham.jpg

Hello Mack, I refurbished the photo a bit, results can be viewed at the alt.arts.poetry.comments Facebook page:

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by: W.Dockery - Tue, 27 Dec 2022 21:36 UTC

Spam-I-Am wrote:

>> On Monday, December 26, 2022 at 4:48:40 AM UTC-5, Mack A. Damia wrote:
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>>> I ate Christmas dinner with Rev. Billy Graham in 1968 at Tan Son Nhut
>>> Air Base, RVN. Here he is just about to sit at my table.
>>>
>>> https://i.ibb.co/4Yhcdc3/Rev-Billy-Graham.jpg

>> That had to have been quite an experience.

Agreed.

Here's a filtered view:

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by: General-Zod - Tue, 27 Dec 2022 22:10 UTC

Will Dockery wrote:

> On Monday, December 26, 2022 at 4:48:40 AM UTC-5, Mack A. Damia wrote:
>>
>> I ate Christmas dinner with Rev. Billy Graham in 1968 at Tan Son Nhut
>> Air Base, RVN. Here he is just about to sit at my table.
>>
>> https://i.ibb.co/4Yhcdc3/Rev-Billy-Graham.jpg

> Hello Mack, I refurbished the photo a bit, results can be viewed at the alt.arts.poetry.comments Facebook page:

> https://www.facebook.com/groups/105463832836304/permalink/5789344197781544/?mibextid=Nif5oz

Quite a fascinating piece of history...

Mack, I think you might like to meet my friend Dan Barfield.... artist and novelist.... did two tours of duty in The NAM...

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by: Mack A. Damia - Tue, 27 Dec 2022 22:35 UTC

On Tue, 27 Dec 2022 22:10:31 +0000, tzod9964@gmail.com (General-Zod)
wrote:

>Will Dockery wrote:
>
>> On Monday, December 26, 2022 at 4:48:40 AM UTC-5, Mack A. Damia wrote:
>>>
>>> I ate Christmas dinner with Rev. Billy Graham in 1968 at Tan Son Nhut
>>> Air Base, RVN. Here he is just about to sit at my table.
>>>
>>> https://i.ibb.co/4Yhcdc3/Rev-Billy-Graham.jpg
>
>> Hello Mack, I refurbished the photo a bit, results can be viewed at the alt.arts.poetry.comments Facebook page:
>
>> https://www.facebook.com/groups/105463832836304/permalink/5789344197781544/?mibextid=Nif5oz
>
>Quite a fascinating piece of history...
>
>Mack, I think you might like to meet my friend Dan Barfield.... artist and novelist.... did two tours of duty in The NAM...

You did a good job on the photo, Will. Thanks!

I don't know. I think Vietnam vets would rather forget about it. I
have a friend in San Diego; we worked together in Saigon, but we
hardly ever talk about it.

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by: Mack A. Damia - Tue, 27 Dec 2022 22:36 UTC

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wrote:

Sorry, I got the attributes mixed up.

First part of my message is to Will.

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by: Zod - Tue, 27 Dec 2022 22:43 UTC

On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 5:35:58 PM UTC-5, Mack A. Damia wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Dec 2022 22:10:31 +0000, tzod...@gmail.com (General-Zod)
> wrote:
> >Will Dockery wrote:
> >> On Monday, December 26, 2022 at 4:48:40 AM UTC-5, Mack A. Damia wrote:
>
> >>> I ate Christmas dinner with Rev. Billy Graham in 1968 at Tan Son Nhut
> >>> Air Base, RVN. Here he is just about to sit at my table.
> >>>
> >>> https://i.ibb.co/4Yhcdc3/Rev-Billy-Graham.jpg
> >
> >> Hello Mack, I refurbished the photo a bit, results can be viewed at the alt.arts.poetry.comments Facebook page:
> >
> >> https://www.facebook.com/groups/105463832836304/permalink/5789344197781544/?mibextid=Nif5oz
> >
> >Quite a fascinating piece of history...
> >
> >Mack, I think you might like to meet my friend Dan Barfield.... artist and novelist.... did two tours of duty in The NAM...
> You did a good job on the photo, Will. Thanks!
>
> I don't know. I think Vietnam vets would rather forget about it. I
> have a friend in San Diego; we worked together in Saigon, but we
> hardly ever talk about it.

My friend Barfield's novel about his Viet Nam tours of duty...

https://www.amazon.com/Reaching-Golden-Ring-M-D-Barfield/dp/B08HGZKCP3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1RS7OLCTVCMCQ&keywords=m.d.+barfield&qid=1672180873&sprefix=m.d.+barfield%2Caps%2C62&sr=8-1

Reaching for the Golden Ring
by M.D. Barfield (Author)

********************* “We’re all on some insane merry-go-round, reaching for the golden ring. Grab it when you can.”The year is nineteen sixty-seven in a west Georgia mill and military town. The country is being torn apart by race riots and antiwar demonstrations. The specter of being drafted is a dark shadow on every one’s life. Can two people, a twenty-four-year-old teacher, and a seventeen-year-old former student, build something good and beautiful from the chaos? Will they be strong enough to hold on to it through the brutality of a year in Vietnam and the guilt of a backwoods southern religion? *******

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by: W-Dockery - Tue, 27 Dec 2022 22:59 UTC

Mack A. Damia wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Dec 2022 22:10:31 +0000, tzod9964@gmail.com (General-Zod)
> wrote:
>>Will Dockery wrote:
>>> On Monday, December 26, 2022 at 4:48:40 AM UTC-5, Mack A. Damia wrote:
>
>>>> I ate Christmas dinner with Rev. Billy Graham in 1968 at Tan Son Nhut
>>>> Air Base, RVN. Here he is just about to sit at my table.
>>>>
>>>> https://i.ibb.co/4Yhcdc3/Rev-Billy-Graham.jpg
>>
>>> Hello Mack, I refurbished the photo a bit, results can be viewed at the alt.arts.poetry.comments Facebook page:
>>
>>> https://www.facebook.com/groups/105463832836304/permalink/5789344197781544/?mibextid=Nif5oz
>>
>>Quite a fascinating piece of history...
>>
>>Mack, I think you might like to meet my friend Dan Barfield.... artist and novelist.... did two tours of duty in The NAM...

> You did a good job on the photo, Will. Thanks!

> I don't know. I think Vietnam vets would rather forget about it. I
> have a friend in San Diego; we worked together in Saigon, but we
> hardly ever talk about it.

You're welcome, Mack.

In fact, I have a friend who may be able to refurbish the photo even more, I'll ask him, he was a few high dollar Photoshop tools.

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by: Michael Pendragon - Wed, 28 Dec 2022 00:01 UTC

On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 5:43:26 PM UTC-5, Zod wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 5:35:58 PM UTC-5, Mack A. Damia wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Dec 2022 22:10:31 +0000, tzod...@gmail.com (General-Zod)
> > wrote:
> > >Will Dockery wrote:
> > >> On Monday, December 26, 2022 at 4:48:40 AM UTC-5, Mack A. Damia wrote:
> >
> > >>> I ate Christmas dinner with Rev. Billy Graham in 1968 at Tan Son Nhut
> > >>> Air Base, RVN. Here he is just about to sit at my table.
> > >>>
> > >>> https://i.ibb.co/4Yhcdc3/Rev-Billy-Graham.jpg
> > >
> > >> Hello Mack, I refurbished the photo a bit, results can be viewed at the alt.arts.poetry.comments Facebook page:
> > >
> > >> https://www.facebook.com/groups/105463832836304/permalink/5789344197781544/?mibextid=Nif5oz
> > >
> > >Quite a fascinating piece of history...
> > >
> > >Mack, I think you might like to meet my friend Dan Barfield.... artist and novelist.... did two tours of duty in The NAM...
> > You did a good job on the photo, Will. Thanks!
> >
> > I don't know. I think Vietnam vets would rather forget about it. I
> > have a friend in San Diego; we worked together in Saigon, but we
> > hardly ever talk about it.
> My friend Barfield's novel about his Viet Nam tours of duty...
>
> https://www.amazon.com/Reaching-Golden-Ring-M-D-Barfield/dp/B08HGZKCP3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1RS7OLCTVCMCQ&keywords=m.d.+barfield&qid=1672180873&sprefix=m.d.+barfield%2Caps%2C62&sr=8-1
>
> Reaching for the Golden Ring
> by M.D. Barfield (Author)
>
> ********************* “We’re all on some insane merry-go-round, reaching for the golden ring. Grab it when you can.”The year is nineteen sixty-seven in a west Georgia mill and military town. The country is being torn apart by race riots and antiwar demonstrations. The specter of being drafted is a dark shadow on every one’s life. Can two people, a twenty-four-year-old teacher, and a seventeen-year-old former student, build something good and beautiful from the chaos? Will they be strong enough to hold on to it through the brutality of a year in Vietnam and the guilt of a backwoods southern religion? *******
>

"Brokeback Hanoi"?

We know the teacher is modeled on Dan Barfly. I wonder who served as the model for the student? (Cough! Donkey! Cough!)

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by: W-Dockery - Wed, 28 Dec 2022 00:13 UTC

Michael Pendragon wrote:

> On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 5:43:26 PM UTC-5, Zod wrote:
>> On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 5:35:58 PM UTC-5, Mack A. Damia wrote:
>> > On Tue, 27 Dec 2022 22:10:31 +0000, tzod...@gmail.com (General-Zod)
>> > wrote:
>> > >Will Dockery wrote:
>> > >> On Monday, December 26, 2022 at 4:48:40 AM UTC-5, Mack A. Damia wrote:
>> >
>> > >>> I ate Christmas dinner with Rev. Billy Graham in 1968 at Tan Son Nhut
>> > >>> Air Base, RVN. Here he is just about to sit at my table.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> https://i.ibb.co/4Yhcdc3/Rev-Billy-Graham.jpg
>> > >
>> > >> Hello Mack, I refurbished the photo a bit, results can be viewed at the alt.arts.poetry.comments Facebook page:
>> > >
>> > >> https://www.facebook.com/groups/105463832836304/permalink/5789344197781544/?mibextid=Nif5oz
>> > >
>> > >Quite a fascinating piece of history...
>> > >
>> > >Mack, I think you might like to meet my friend Dan Barfield.... artist and novelist.... did two tours of duty in The NAM...
>> > You did a good job on the photo, Will. Thanks!
>> >
>> > I don't know. I think Vietnam vets would rather forget about it. I
>> > have a friend in San Diego; we worked together in Saigon, but we
>> > hardly ever talk about it.
>> My friend Barfield's novel about his Viet Nam tours of duty...
>>
>> https://www.amazon.com/Reaching-Golden-Ring-M-D-Barfield/dp/B08HGZKCP3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1RS7OLCTVCMCQ&keywords=m.d.+barfield&qid=1672180873&sprefix=m.d.+barfield%2Caps%2C62&sr=8-1
>>
>> Reaching for the Golden Ring
>> by M.D. Barfield (Author)
>>
>> ********************* “We’re all on some insane merry-go-round, reaching for the golden ring. Grab it when you can.”The year is nineteen sixty-seven in a west Georgia mill and military town. The country is being torn apart by race riots and antiwar demonstrations. The specter of being drafted is a dark shadow on every one’s life. Can two people, a twenty-four-year-old teacher, and a seventeen-year-old former student, build something good and beautiful from the chaos? Will they be strong enough to hold on to it through the brutality of a year in Vietnam and the guilt of a backwoods southern religion? *******
>>

> "Brokeback Hanoi"?

> We know the teacher is modeled on Dan Barfly. I wonder who served as the model for the student? (Cough! Donkey! Cough!)

I wasn't Barfield's student until 1974-76.

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by: Michael Pendragon - Wed, 28 Dec 2022 00:38 UTC

On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 7:15:13 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> Michael Pendragon wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 5:43:26 PM UTC-5, Zod wrote:
> >> On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 5:35:58 PM UTC-5, Mack A. Damia wrote:
> >> > On Tue, 27 Dec 2022 22:10:31 +0000, tzod...@gmail.com (General-Zod)
> >> > wrote:
> >> > >Will Dockery wrote:
> >> > >> On Monday, December 26, 2022 at 4:48:40 AM UTC-5, Mack A. Damia wrote:
> >> >
> >> > >>> I ate Christmas dinner with Rev. Billy Graham in 1968 at Tan Son Nhut
> >> > >>> Air Base, RVN. Here he is just about to sit at my table.
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>> https://i.ibb.co/4Yhcdc3/Rev-Billy-Graham.jpg
> >> > >
> >> > >> Hello Mack, I refurbished the photo a bit, results can be viewed at the alt.arts.poetry.comments Facebook page:
> >> > >
> >> > >> https://www.facebook.com/groups/105463832836304/permalink/5789344197781544/?mibextid=Nif5oz
> >> > >
> >> > >Quite a fascinating piece of history...
> >> > >
> >> > >Mack, I think you might like to meet my friend Dan Barfield.... artist and novelist.... did two tours of duty in The NAM...
> >> > You did a good job on the photo, Will. Thanks!
> >> >
> >> > I don't know. I think Vietnam vets would rather forget about it. I
> >> > have a friend in San Diego; we worked together in Saigon, but we
> >> > hardly ever talk about it.
> >> My friend Barfield's novel about his Viet Nam tours of duty...
> >>
> >> https://www.amazon.com/Reaching-Golden-Ring-M-D-Barfield/dp/B08HGZKCP3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1RS7OLCTVCMCQ&keywords=m.d.+barfield&qid=1672180873&sprefix=m.d.+barfield%2Caps%2C62&sr=8-1
> >>
> >> Reaching for the Golden Ring
> >> by M.D. Barfield (Author)
> >>
> >> ********************* “We’re all on some insane merry-go-round, reaching for the golden ring. Grab it when you can.”The year is nineteen sixty-seven in a west Georgia mill and military town. The country is being torn apart by race riots and antiwar demonstrations. The specter of being drafted is a dark shadow on every one’s life. Can two people, a twenty-four-year-old teacher, and a seventeen-year-old former student, build something good and beautiful from the chaos? Will they be strong enough to hold on to it through the brutality of a year in Vietnam and the guilt of a backwoods southern religion? *******
> >>
>
> > "Brokeback Hanoi"?
>
> > We know the teacher is modeled on Dan Barfly. I wonder who served as the model for the student? (Cough! Donkey! Cough!)
> I wasn't Barfield's student until 1974-76.

And the book was written in 2020.

Since 2020 is 45-46 years after you were Dan's student, he could easily have based the fictional student on you.

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Great novel from Barfield.

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by: Will Dockery - Wed, 28 Dec 2022 01:46 UTC

Michael Pendragon wrote:

> On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 7:15:13 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
>> Michael Pendragon wrote:
>>
>> > On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 5:43:26 PM UTC-5, Zod wrote:
>> >> On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 5:35:58 PM UTC-5, Mack A. Damia wrote:
>> >> > On Tue, 27 Dec 2022 22:10:31 +0000, tzod...@gmail.com (General-Zod)
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> > >Will Dockery wrote:
>> >> > >> On Monday, December 26, 2022 at 4:48:40 AM UTC-5, Mack A. Damia wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > >>> I ate Christmas dinner with Rev. Billy Graham in 1968 at Tan Son Nhut
>> >> > >>> Air Base, RVN. Here he is just about to sit at my table.
>> >> > >>>
>> >> > >>> https://i.ibb.co/4Yhcdc3/Rev-Billy-Graham.jpg
>> >> > >
>> >> > >> Hello Mack, I refurbished the photo a bit, results can be viewed at the alt.arts.poetry.comments Facebook page:
>> >> > >
>> >> > >> https://www.facebook.com/groups/105463832836304/permalink/5789344197781544/?mibextid=Nif5oz
>> >> > >
>> >> > >Quite a fascinating piece of history...
>> >> > >
>> >> > >Mack, I think you might like to meet my friend Dan Barfield.... artist and novelist.... did two tours of duty in The NAM...
>> >> > You did a good job on the photo, Will. Thanks!
>> >> >
>> >> > I don't know. I think Vietnam vets would rather forget about it. I
>> >> > have a friend in San Diego; we worked together in Saigon, but we
>> >> > hardly ever talk about it.
>> >> My friend Barfield's novel about his Viet Nam tours of duty...
>> >>
>> >> https://www.amazon.com/Reaching-Golden-Ring-M-D-Barfield/dp/B08HGZKCP3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1RS7OLCTVCMCQ&keywords=m.d.+barfield&qid=1672180873&sprefix=m.d.+barfield%2Caps%2C62&sr=8-1
>> >>
>> >> Reaching for the Golden Ring
>> >> by M.D. Barfield (Author)
>> >>
>> >> ********************* “We’re all on some insane merry-go-round, reaching for the golden ring. Grab it when you can.”The year is nineteen sixty-seven in a west Georgia mill and military town. The country is being torn apart by race riots and antiwar demonstrations. The specter of being drafted is a dark shadow on every one’s life. Can two people, a twenty-four-year-old teacher, and a seventeen-year-old former student, build something good and beautiful from the chaos? Will they be strong enough to hold on to it through the brutality of a year in Vietnam and the guilt of a backwoods southern religion? *******
>> >>
>>
>> > "Brokeback Hanoi"?
>>
>> > We know the teacher is modeled on Dan Barfly. I wonder who served as the model for the student? (Cough! Donkey! Cough!)
>> I wasn't Barfield's student until 1974-76.

> And the book was written in 2020.

> Since 2020 is 45-46 years after you were Dan's student, he could easily have based the fictional student on you.

If you actually read the book you'd see you're mistaken.

HTH and HAND.

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by: Coco DeSockmonkey - Wed, 28 Dec 2022 02:41 UTC

On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 8:46:49 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> Michael Pendragon wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 7:15:13 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> >> Michael Pendragon wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 5:43:26 PM UTC-5, Zod wrote:
> >> >> On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 5:35:58 PM UTC-5, Mack A. Damia wrote:
> >> >> > On Tue, 27 Dec 2022 22:10:31 +0000, tzod...@gmail.com (General-Zod)
> >> >> > wrote:
> >> >> > >Will Dockery wrote:
> >> >> > >> On Monday, December 26, 2022 at 4:48:40 AM UTC-5, Mack A. Damia wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > >>> I ate Christmas dinner with Rev. Billy Graham in 1968 at Tan Son Nhut
> >> >> > >>> Air Base, RVN. Here he is just about to sit at my table.
> >> >> > >>>
> >> >> > >>> https://i.ibb.co/4Yhcdc3/Rev-Billy-Graham.jpg
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > >> Hello Mack, I refurbished the photo a bit, results can be viewed at the alt.arts.poetry.comments Facebook page:
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > >> https://www.facebook.com/groups/105463832836304/permalink/5789344197781544/?mibextid=Nif5oz
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > >Quite a fascinating piece of history...
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > >Mack, I think you might like to meet my friend Dan Barfield.... artist and novelist.... did two tours of duty in The NAM...
> >> >> > You did a good job on the photo, Will. Thanks!
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I don't know. I think Vietnam vets would rather forget about it. I
> >> >> > have a friend in San Diego; we worked together in Saigon, but we
> >> >> > hardly ever talk about it.
> >> >> My friend Barfield's novel about his Viet Nam tours of duty...
> >> >>
> >> >> https://www.amazon.com/Reaching-Golden-Ring-M-D-Barfield/dp/B08HGZKCP3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1RS7OLCTVCMCQ&keywords=m.d.+barfield&qid=1672180873&sprefix=m.d.+barfield%2Caps%2C62&sr=8-1
> >> >>
> >> >> Reaching for the Golden Ring
> >> >> by M.D. Barfield (Author)
> >> >>
> >> >> ********************* “We’re all on some insane merry-go-round, reaching for the golden ring. Grab it when you can.”The year is nineteen sixty-seven in a west Georgia mill and military town. The country is being torn apart by race riots and antiwar demonstrations. The specter of being drafted is a dark shadow on every one’s life. Can two people, a twenty-four-year-old teacher, and a seventeen-year-old former student, build something good and beautiful from the chaos? Will they be strong enough to hold on to it through the brutality of a year in Vietnam and the guilt of a backwoods southern religion? *******
> >> >>
> >>
> >> > "Brokeback Hanoi"?
> >>
> >> > We know the teacher is modeled on Dan Barfly. I wonder who served as the model for the student? (Cough! Donkey! Cough!)
> >> I wasn't Barfield's student until 1974-76.
>
> > And the book was written in 2020.
>
> > Since 2020 is 45-46 years after you were Dan's student, he could easily have based the fictional student on you.
> If you actually read the book you'd see you're mistaken.

Judging from the blurb, it's regurgitated tripe.

No thanks.

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Coco DeSockmonkey wrote:

> On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 8:46:49 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
>> Michael Pendragon wrote:
>>
>> > On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 7:15:13 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
>> >> Michael Pendragon wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 5:43:26 PM UTC-5, Zod wrote:
>> >> >> On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 5:35:58 PM UTC-5, Mack A. Damia wrote:
>> >> >> > On Tue, 27 Dec 2022 22:10:31 +0000, tzod...@gmail.com (General-Zod)
>> >> >> > wrote:
>> >> >> > >Will Dockery wrote:
>> >> >> > >> On Monday, December 26, 2022 at 4:48:40 AM UTC-5, Mack A. Damia wrote:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > >>> I ate Christmas dinner with Rev. Billy Graham in 1968 at Tan Son Nhut
>> >> >> > >>> Air Base, RVN. Here he is just about to sit at my table.
>> >> >> > >>>
>> >> >> > >>> https://i.ibb.co/4Yhcdc3/Rev-Billy-Graham.jpg
>> >> >> > >
>> >> >> > >> Hello Mack, I refurbished the photo a bit, results can be viewed at the alt.arts.poetry.comments Facebook page:
>> >> >> > >
>> >> >> > >> https://www.facebook.com/groups/105463832836304/permalink/5789344197781544/?mibextid=Nif5oz
>> >> >> > >
>> >> >> > >Quite a fascinating piece of history...
>> >> >> > >
>> >> >> > >Mack, I think you might like to meet my friend Dan Barfield.... artist and novelist.... did two tours of duty in The NAM...
>> >> >> > You did a good job on the photo, Will. Thanks!
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > I don't know. I think Vietnam vets would rather forget about it. I
>> >> >> > have a friend in San Diego; we worked together in Saigon, but we
>> >> >> > hardly ever talk about it.
>> >> >> My friend Barfield's novel about his Viet Nam tours of duty...
>> >> >>
>> >> >> https://www.amazon.com/Reaching-Golden-Ring-M-D-Barfield/dp/B08HGZKCP3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1RS7OLCTVCMCQ&keywords=m.d.+barfield&qid=1672180873&sprefix=m.d.+barfield%2Caps%2C62&sr=8-1
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Reaching for the Golden Ring
>> >> >> by M.D. Barfield (Author)
>> >> >>
>> >> >> ********************* “We’re all on some insane merry-go-round, reaching for the golden ring. Grab it when you can.”The year is nineteen sixty-seven in a west Georgia mill and military town. The country is being torn apart by race riots and antiwar demonstrations. The specter of being drafted is a dark shadow on every one’s life. Can two people, a twenty-four-year-old teacher, and a seventeen-year-old former student, build something good and beautiful from the chaos? Will they be strong enough to hold on to it through the brutality of a year in Vietnam and the guilt of a backwoods southern religion? *******
>> >> >>
>> >>
>> >> > "Brokeback Hanoi"?
>> >>
>> >> > We know the teacher is modeled on Dan Barfly. I wonder who served as the model for the student? (Cough! Donkey! Cough!)
>> >> I wasn't Barfield's student until 1974-76.
>>
>> > And the book was written in 2020.
>>
>> > Since 2020 is 45-46 years after you were Dan's student, he could easily have based the fictional student on you.
>> If you actually read the book you'd see you're mistaken.

> Judging from the blurb

Says Michael Pendragon, the delusional fuckhead with the fantasies about being a better poet than T.S. Eliot.

HTH and HAND.

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by: Zod - Wed, 28 Dec 2022 22:07 UTC

Or Penhead can have someone read it to him... ha ha....

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by: Michael Pendragon - Thu, 29 Dec 2022 00:31 UTC

On Wednesday, December 28, 2022 at 5:07:49 PM UTC-5, Zod wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 8:46:49 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> > Michael Pendragon wrote:
> >
> > > On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 7:15:13 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> > >> Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 5:43:26 PM UTC-5, Zod wrote:
> > >> >> On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 5:35:58 PM UTC-5, Mack A. Damia wrote:
> > >> >> > On Tue, 27 Dec 2022 22:10:31 +0000, tzod...@gmail.com (General-Zod)
> > >> >> > wrote:
> > >> >> > >Will Dockery wrote:
> > >> >> > >> On Monday, December 26, 2022 at 4:48:40 AM UTC-5, Mack A. Damia wrote:
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > >>> I ate Christmas dinner with Rev. Billy Graham in 1968 at Tan Son Nhut
> > >> >> > >>> Air Base, RVN. Here he is just about to sit at my table.
> > >> >> > >>>
> > >> >> > >>> https://i.ibb.co/4Yhcdc3/Rev-Billy-Graham.jpg
> > >> >> > >
> > >> >> > >> Hello Mack, I refurbished the photo a bit, results can be viewed at the alt.arts.poetry.comments Facebook page:
> > >> >> > >
> > >> >> > >> https://www.facebook.com/groups/105463832836304/permalink/5789344197781544/?mibextid=Nif5oz
> > >> >> > >
> > >> >> > >Quite a fascinating piece of history...
> > >> >> > >
> > >> >> > >Mack, I think you might like to meet my friend Dan Barfield..... artist and novelist.... did two tours of duty in The NAM...
> > >> >> > You did a good job on the photo, Will. Thanks!
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > I don't know. I think Vietnam vets would rather forget about it.. I
> > >> >> > have a friend in San Diego; we worked together in Saigon, but we
> > >> >> > hardly ever talk about it.
> > >> >> My friend Barfield's novel about his Viet Nam tours of duty...
> > >> >>
> > >> >> https://www.amazon.com/Reaching-Golden-Ring-M-D-Barfield/dp/B08HGZKCP3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1RS7OLCTVCMCQ&keywords=m.d.+barfield&qid=1672180873&sprefix=m.d.+barfield%2Caps%2C62&sr=8-1
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Reaching for the Golden Ring
> > >> >> by M.D. Barfield (Author)
> > >> >>
> > >> >> ********************* “We’re all on some insane merry-go-round, reaching for the golden ring. Grab it when you can.”The year is nineteen sixty-seven in a west Georgia mill and military town. The country is being torn apart by race riots and antiwar demonstrations. The specter of being drafted is a dark shadow on every one’s life. Can two people, a twenty-four-year-old teacher, and a seventeen-year-old former student, build something good and beautiful from the chaos? Will they be strong enough to hold on to it through the brutality of a year in Vietnam and the guilt of a backwoods southern religion? *******
> > >> >>
> > >>
> > >> > "Brokeback Hanoi"?
> > >>
> > >> > We know the teacher is modeled on Dan Barfly. I wonder who served as the model for the student? (Cough! Donkey! Cough!)
> > >> I wasn't Barfield's student until 1974-76.
> >
> > > And the book was written in 2020.
> >
> > > Since 2020 is 45-46 years after you were Dan's student, he could easily have based the fictional student on you.
> > If you actually read the book you'd see you're mistaken.
> >
> > HTH and HAND.
> Or Penhead can have someone read it to him... ha ha....

So what did you like about "Brokeback Hanoi"?

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by: W.Dockery - Thu, 29 Dec 2022 02:52 UTC

Michael Pendragon wrote:

> On Wednesday, December 28, 2022 at 5:07:49 PM UTC-5, Zod wrote:
>> On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 8:46:49 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
>> > Michael Pendragon wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 7:15:13 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
>> > >> Michael Pendragon wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >> > On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 5:43:26 PM UTC-5, Zod wrote:
>> > >> >> On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 5:35:58 PM UTC-5, Mack A. Damia wrote:
>> > >> >> > On Tue, 27 Dec 2022 22:10:31 +0000, tzod...@gmail.com (General-Zod)
>> > >> >> > wrote:
>> > >> >> > >Will Dockery wrote:
>> > >> >> > >> On Monday, December 26, 2022 at 4:48:40 AM UTC-5, Mack A. Damia wrote:
>> > >> >> >
>> > >> >> > >>> I ate Christmas dinner with Rev. Billy Graham in 1968 at Tan Son Nhut
>> > >> >> > >>> Air Base, RVN. Here he is just about to sit at my table.
>> > >> >> > >>>
>> > >> >> > >>> https://i.ibb.co/4Yhcdc3/Rev-Billy-Graham.jpg
>> > >> >> > >
>> > >> >> > >> Hello Mack, I refurbished the photo a bit, results can be viewed at the alt.arts.poetry.comments Facebook page:
>> > >> >> > >
>> > >> >> > >> https://www.facebook.com/groups/105463832836304/permalink/5789344197781544/?mibextid=Nif5oz
>> > >> >> > >
>> > >> >> > >Quite a fascinating piece of history...
>> > >> >> > >
>> > >> >> > >Mack, I think you might like to meet my friend Dan Barfield..... artist and novelist.... did two tours of duty in The NAM...
>> > >> >> > You did a good job on the photo, Will. Thanks!
>> > >> >> >
>> > >> >> > I don't know. I think Vietnam vets would rather forget about it.. I
>> > >> >> > have a friend in San Diego; we worked together in Saigon, but we
>> > >> >> > hardly ever talk about it.
>> > >> >> My friend Barfield's novel about his Viet Nam tours of duty...
>> > >> >>
>> > >> >> https://www.amazon.com/Reaching-Golden-Ring-M-D-Barfield/dp/B08HGZKCP3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1RS7OLCTVCMCQ&keywords=m.d.+barfield&qid=1672180873&sprefix=m.d.+barfield%2Caps%2C62&sr=8-1
>> > >> >>
>> > >> >> Reaching for the Golden Ring
>> > >> >> by M.D. Barfield (Author)
>> > >> >>
>> > >> >> ********************* “We’re all on some insane merry-go-round, reaching for the golden ring. Grab it when you can.”The year is nineteen sixty-seven in a west Georgia mill and military town. The country is being torn apart by race riots and antiwar demonstrations. The specter of being drafted is a dark shadow on every one’s life. Can two people, a twenty-four-year-old teacher, and a seventeen-year-old former student, build something good and beautiful from the chaos? Will they be strong enough to hold on to it through the brutality of a year in Vietnam and the guilt of a backwoods southern religion? *******
>> > >> >>
>> > >>
>> > >> > "Brokeback Hanoi"?
>> > >>
>> > >> > We know the teacher is modeled on Dan Barfly. I wonder who served as the model for the student? (Cough! Donkey! Cough!)
>> > >> I wasn't Barfield's student until 1974-76.
>> >
>> > > And the book was written in 2020.
>> >
>> > > Since 2020 is 45-46 years after you were Dan's student, he could easily have based the fictional student on you.
>> > If you actually read the book you'd see you're mistaken.
>> >
>> > HTH and HAND.
>> Or Penhead can have someone read it to him... ha ha....

> So what did you like about "Brokeback Hanoi"?

Looks like another of your fantasies, Pendragon.

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HTH and HAND.

Subject	Author
Christmas Diinner, 1968	Mack A. Damia
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	Spam-I-Am
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	W-Dockery
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	Mack A. Damia
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	Family Guy
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	Family Guy
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	Will Dockery
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	Will Dockery
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	W.Dockery
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	Will Dockery
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	General-Zod
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	Mack A. Damia
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	Zod
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	Michael Pendragon
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	W-Dockery
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	Michael Pendragon
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	Will Dockery
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	W-Dockery
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	Mack A. Damia
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	Will Dockery
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	Coco DeSockmonkey
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	W-Dockery
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	Zod
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	Michael Pendragon
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	W.Dockery
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	Zod
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	Will Dockery
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	General-Zod
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	W-Dockery
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	Usenet Editor
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	W.Dockery
Re: Christmas Diinner, 1968	W.Dockery