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23 FEB 2003 Don't Laugh At Duct Tape; It Saves Lives (Essay by Captain May) Quote: "Now is the time for all wise people to come to the aid of… themselves." |
The April Fools Collection |
Part 1 - Ghost Troop |
03 APR 2003 Visions of Stalingrad: Claim Victory in Iraq Now (Essay by Captain May) Quote: "...I'm afraid we may learn too late that we have stepped into quicksand." |
07 APR 2003 Letter to Dan Patrick, KPRC Radio (950 AM) |
13 APR 2003 3/7 Cavalry, tragedy and travesty (Essay) Quote: "I fear the media has signed a Faustian pact in exchange for a close-up of
the best story of the new millennium." |
18 APR 2003 Report, Hand-delivered, to the Honors College |
21 APR 2003 Elysian Fields, Texas, Letter to Lieutenant Colonel Terry Ferrell, Commander, 3/7
Cavalry Quote: "I have spent enough time idle." |
22 APR 2003 Mansfield, Louisiana - Jay |
23 APR 2003 Saline, Louisiana - Mrs May Quote: "I look at your face and feel happiness." |
24 APR 2003 Caney Creek Lake State Park, Louisiana, Caesar de Paz and Andre Rodriguez With a letter to Mrs May. |
27 APR 2003 Letter to Professor G from Vicksburg This is a wonderful and inspiring letter. |
06 MAY 2003 Tuskegee: Letter to Prof G "I have submitted to a traditional Korean regime that most Americans would call Spartan
if we read enough to know what Sparta was." |
07 MAY 2003 Mothers Day: Letter from Phenix, Alabama |
09 MAY 2003 Roberta, Georgia: Letter to Jay P. |
14 MAY 2003 Ft Stewart, Georgia: Meeting with Colonel Dennington, Special Forces Quote: "When you do get the answers you're looking for, don't have survivor's guilt." |
01 APR 2003 April Fools Day - submission of Stalingrad essay to Houston Chronicle |
28 JUN 2003 Email to John Danford, Liberty Fund Important material. Quote: "There is one great difference between me and most of my fellow Americans:
I know I am a fool." |
08 JUL 2003 Worried About Quicksand of War in Iraq (Essay by Captain May) "The results so far suggest that the father picked his strategy and his strategist
better than the son." |
09 JUL 2003 Email to David Langworthy Quote: "The standards of informational integrity for our war in Iraq were worthy
of the National Enquirer." |
09 JUL 2003 Email to Ted Koppel, Nightline, ABC Quote: "I believe that a bit of digging will reveal that there is a cover-up afoot" |
10 JUL 2003 Email to Senator John McCain Quote: "I wanted to puke when the commander in chief landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln
and kept the cover-up going." |
10 JUL 2003 Email to Senator Tom Daschle Quote: "Candidly, I believe that you and other Democratic leaders failed to do your
jobs..." |
10 JUL 2003 Email to Steve Wasserman, KPRC TV, NBC, Post, Newsweek Quote: "How is it that the whole media can be missing hundreds of casualties?" |
10 JUL 2003 Letter (hand-delivered) to the University of Houston Honors College Quote: "And by the way, speaking of April Fools jokes, here's mine..." |
11 JUL 2003 Letter to Sergeant First Class Avery, University of Houston ROTC Quote: "I know you're deeply concerned about everything as I am..." |
12 JUL 2003 Letter to Penelope Brook, World Bank This website is full of brilliant letters, but this letter will blow your mind. |
14 JUL 2003 Email to Dick and Theresa, Ireland |
15 JUL 2003 Email to the Houston Chronicle Quote: "It's time to remind our leaders, from those we allow to inform us to those
we allow to govern us, and that it is we the people who run this country." |
15 JUL 2003 Email to John Danford, Liberty Fund Quote: "As a minor, skeptical philosopher, I attend to peoples' actions, not their
utterances." |
15 JUL 2003 Philippic Contra George W. Bush An absolute MUST read. Quote: "I knew on sight that you were a frat boy who needed someone with real character..." |
15 JUL 2003 Email to Thom Shanker, New York Times Quote: "...here is my specific allegation: I believe the president lied to
the American people..." |
16 JUL 2003 Email to Wolf Blitzer, CNN Quote: "CNN, YOUR LIES MAKE ME PUKE." |
16 JUL 2003 Letter to Oliver Stone Quote: "Sir, I am a great admirer of your work..." |
17 JUL 2003 Email to the Media of Savannah, Georgia "I have wept at your pain and at the death of the brave soldiers who have been buried
in obscurity by cowards and liars." |
17 JUL 2003 Email to the Editorial Board, Houston Chronicle |
17 JUL 2003 Email to Tom Barton, Editor, Savannah Morning News A classic, short and sweet. Quote: "You could have become famous just by being human." |
17 JUL 2003 Email to Cynthia Tucker, Atlanta Journal Constitution Quote: "I twice called [but you weren't] interested enough in dead soldiers..." |
18 JUL 2003 Letter to Dr. David Kelly, England Addressed to Dr Kelly following his death under suspicious circumstances. Very moving.
With attachments, also very moving. |
27 JUL 2003 Letter to Thom Shanker, New York Times |
27 JUL 2003 Email to Outlook & Viewpoints, Houston Chronicle Quote: "How about telling the truth to the public so that honest men like me don't
have to worry...?" |
28 JUL 2003 Letter to Great Grandmaster Yu Yong Kyu |
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