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...years ago, I was invited to join a group of men who were meeting every other week or so to talk about Vietnam. Three of us had served there. Of the others, one had been a conscientious objector; another had got lucky with the draft; a third had been too old for Vietnam but was active in the antiwar movement. Though our circumstances had placed us in very different, even conflicting positions, nobody was of a mind to find fault with anyone else. Indeed, the other two veterans had both become pacifists some years back...
...politician's war record--or antiwar record--evokes scorn or approbation; the masterfully manipulative Forrest Gump makes adults weep; we fret over quagmires, and still we can hear the air torn by helicopter blades and see that canted, top-heavy map on the evening news and recall precisely our draft-lottery number or that of our brother or son. Some brothers and sons did not return; they are still with us as well...
...months later, no N.F.L. team seemed to want him. The 49ers and Bill Walsh became interested only after they worked him out at UCLA two days before the draft. As Sam Wyche, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach who was then the quarterbacks coach for the 49ers, recalls, "What really impressed us was that he could immediately put into practice any coaching suggestion. He would literally eat the words right out of your mouth. Call it what you will--intelligence, intangibles, charisma--that's what we saw in Joe." But even at that, Montana still had to wait behind starting...
...attempt to muster support for his formerclient, Sheehan sent letters to prominentindividuals in the UFO community, appealing fortheir support and testimony. In the letter,obtained by The Crimson, Sheehan provides excerptsfrom the committee's "Draft Report" along with hisown commentary regarding its objectives andmotives...
Sheehan quotes the draft report as saying,"There is, of course, a long history of sightingsof unidentifiable object in the sky. But theinterpretation that these are 'spaceships'controlled by extraterrestrial beings iscontroversial. When carefully investigated, suchsightings have been proven to be erroneousfraudulent or due to known natural or man-madephenomena...