Now let's see here if I understand all this correctly. President Clinton has ordered our forces to engage an entrenched, politically motivated enemy, backed by the Russians, on their home ground, in a foreign civil war, in difficult terrain, with limited military objectives, bombing restrictions, boundary and operational restrictions, queasy allies, far across the ocean, with uncertain goals, without prior consultation with congress, the potential for escalation, while limiting the forces at his disposal, and the majority of Americans opposed to or at least uncertain about the value of the action being worth American lives. So just what was it that he was opposed to in Vietnam?
My wife is a primary school teacher, and related this tale after another class returned from a trip to a working farm: My wife asked little David if he had enjoyed the trip. "Yes it was great - we saw sheep, horses, goats, and f***ers." Wife: "er, fine, fine. I know what the sheep and the rest are, but what is a f***er?" David: "Oh, they're the animals that give us milk" Wife: "but who said they were called, er, f***ers?" David: "that was our teacher. Well actually she called them "effers," but we all knew what she meant."
Horace Wells: Pioneered the use of anesthesia in the 1840s How he died: Used anesthetics to commit suicide While experimenting with various gases during his anesthesia research, Wells became addicted to chloroform. In 1848 he was arrested for spraying two women with sulfuric acid. In a letter he wrote from jail, he blamed chloroform for his problems, claiming that he'd gotten high before the attack. Four days later he was found dead in his cell. He'd anaesthetized himself with chloroform and slashed open his thigh with a razor.
