@aidan,
Lots of reasons . . . It's three pages long and my computer ran out of ink after producing two pages. Desperate to work a sudoku, I forced the printer to go beyond the out of ink message and am printing successfully. (Nyah-nyah-nyah to the people who refill cartridges.)
I printed the third page but haven't done anything about mailing it although i did stop by the post office to send something else yesterday.
I've been sending fan letters to writers since I was a college student. My first was to J. R. R. Tolkien. Carolyn HEilbrun encouraged me to pursue a project involving Gertrude, HAmlet's mom. Paul Theroux sent me some notes on one of his novels. there were a few others.
I have only felt compelled to send three so far:
George Carlin (thankfully before he passed on)
Robert Jordan aka James Oliver Rigney, Jr. (thankfully before he passed on)
And finally Brandon Sanderson (who thankfully has not passed on yet)
So far as I can remember, I have not sent any fan letters,
but I have thanked people in person, when I have met them.
I thanked Bob Levy, Esq in person, for his efforts in using the USSC
to tear down gun control in America, upon the basis of the 2nd Amendment.
I wish that I had sent supporting, encouraging fan mail
to Chile 's General Augusto Pinochet for his noble efforts
against the local communists. I thanked Herbert Philbrick in person,
for his efforts as a counter-spy against the commies in America.
I thanked Dutch von Kirk in person, the Navigator of the Enola Gay,
for his help in the Aug. 6th, 1945 nuclear attack on Hiroshima.
I thanked Raymond Moody, M.D., in person, for his authorship
of LIFE AFTER LIFE, et seq. accounts from people who have
survived death in hospitals.
I wish that I had thanked Neil Armstrong, for going to the Moon.
David
@OmSigDAVID,
Quote:I wish that I had sent supporting, encouraging fan mail
to Chile 's General Augusto Pinochet for his noble efforts
against the local communists. ..
I bet you wish you had, too, David.
And I'd also bet you know all about the horror & carnage that Chilean citizens had to endure under this mongrel's reign of terror.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile_under_Pinochet
Pinochet, as you'd no doubt be fully aware, was a war criminal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet%27s_arrest_and_trial
I suppose some of us are supposed to be "outraged" by statements like this from you?
I'm not. I find such statements from you entirely predictable & consistent.
I am not
remotely surprised that you'd want to send him a congratulatory letter.
I'm rather surprised you didn't include Adolph Hitler in your list, though ...
@msolga,
Quote:I bet you wish you had, too, David.
And I'd also bet you know all about the horror & carnage that Chilean citizens had to endure under this mongrel's reign of terror.
Msolga is it your position that the Chilean citizens would now be better off if that Guerrilla war also known as the dirty war had been lost and a communist government had taken over?
How many people might had ended up against a wall and shot then? If Cuba is a good guide at least tens thousands and along with an enslave people on the Castro model of good government for many decades.
Yes, perhaps the dirty war could had been won if it was not so dirty and people for example was not thrown out of airplanes over the ocean, but then perhaps it could not had been either.
Sadly, sometimes a war criminal SOB is very useful to have around.
@BillRM,
I think the Chilean citizens would have been better off if their elected president had been allowed to serve.
"My position" is that
nothing justifies what occurred under Pinochet's regime. Nothing justifies a crime against humanity.
@msolga,
Quote:"My position" is that nothing justifies what occurred under Pinochet's regime. Nothing justifies a crime against humanity.
So we should not have firebomb German cities and kill hundreds of thousands of German men women and children during WW2?
Instead of using that, kind of cold-blooded ruthless force we should had allowed the Nazis to keep control of Western Europe?
After all nothing in your world view justifies crimes against humanity!
@msolga,
Quote: think the Chilean citizens would have been better off if their elected president had been allowed to serve.
Returning to Germany in the 1930s if the German military had overturn the legal government at the time and hunted down and destroy the Nazis party and in so doing kill tens of thousands of party members being every bit as harsh as Pinochet that would had been a bad and evil thing to do in your opinion?
Life is never as simple or as black and white as we would wish it to be.
@BillRM,
(This could go on all night & I simply don't want to do that, OK? )
I've really said pretty much all I've wanted to say, Bill ...which was in reference to General Pinochet's regime & crimes against against humanity in Chile.
Have you ever read Kurt Vonnegut's novel
Slaughter House 5?
@msolga,
Quote:Have you ever read Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughter House 5?
No I miss that book................
Too busy reading history.
@BillRM,
It was about the bombing of Dresden during WW2.
I think we have very different perspectives on such things, Bill.
"Never the twain shall meet".
@BillRM,
Quote:After all nothing in your world view justifies crimes against humanity!
Does anyone else find this very funny?
@msolga,
Quote:It was about the bombing of Dresden during WW2.
I think we have very different perspectives on such things, Bill.
"Never the twain shall meet".
I only got to talk for a short time to one surviver of the Death camps who had her whole family wipe out but I now wonder what her perspective would had been.
You know there are a fews still around that are willing to give talks.
@BillRM,
Yes, I do know, Bill.
Some of those last survivors still talk about their experiences to school children & others at the
Jewish Holocaust Museum in my city.
@msolga,
Quote:others at the Jewish Holocaust Museum in my city.
Yes I know that is where I met the lady in question at the Holocaust Museum in Detroit.
@OmSigDAVID,
OmSigDAVID wrote:
msolga wrote:I think the Chilean citizens would have been better off
if their elected president had been allowed to serve.
"My position" is that nothing justifies what occurred under Pinochet's regime. Nothing justifies a crime against humanity.
Has Olga just identified herself as a communist ?? a supporter of communist SLAVERY ??
David
Has David just identified himself as being guilty of slander?
@plainoldme,
No, I hadn't heard it till now, POM.
A haunting & beautiful homage to the "disappeared".
Thank you very much for posting it.
