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Subject: Re: Why I am not going to the Graz WCCC

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 15:10:32 04/01/03

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On April 01, 2003 at 17:32:21, Bruce Moreland wrote:

this amazes me.

let's take this to email.

>On April 01, 2003 at 16:56:18, Chessfun wrote:
>
>>On April 01, 2003 at 16:49:31, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>So that sometimes also political emails get shipped, i can follow those logics.
>>
>>Please explain what was political about his e-mail?. Simply sending a pic of
>>dead US soldiers with the words "I like Americans", "At least these ones." is
>>not quite good enough.
>>
>>>I'm guilty in that respect myself too. I shipped several my political concerns
>>>about high voltage power lines (150KV+ transporting 2000A) and living under
>>>them.
>>
>>What, did those pictures show people burnt to death?.
>>
>>Sarah.
>
>Here is a description of the contents of these photos.
>
>First one, taken from a TV screen, soldier is lying on the ground.  He is white,
>wearing n army t-shirt.  He more or les fills the screen, head near bottom,
>torso extending upward, legs off the top of the screen.  He looks wet, although
>I'm not sure what the fluids are.  His uniform shirt is lying on the ground
>beside him.  He is not wearing a helmet.  There is a pool of blood on the ground
>under his head.  There is a TV caption/logo thing covering most of the bottom of
>the screen.  You see part of the guy's head above it, and the blood below it,
>but you can't see his forehead.  After looking at this photo, this may be one of
>the soldiers who was shot between the eyes.
>
>Second one has two guys.  First one, also no uniform shirt.  He's wearing
>suspenders.  You can see his head but there is no detail visible because of the
>way he is lying.  Either that or his face has been shot off.
>
>In the same photo is another body behind the first one.  This one is also
>wearing a uniform t-shirt but no shirt over that.  He has his shirt pulled up
>and his pants pulled part way down and you can see his underwear.  I hadn't
>noticed that before.  You see more when you describe this stuff.
>
>I hadn't realized that American soldiers fought without uniform shirts, with
>their pants pulled part way down, and with no helmets, but you learn something
>new every day.
>
>As I said, the subject of this email was "I like Americans", and the text was
>"At least these ones."
>
>The first email I got contained a photo taken from German or Austrian video, of
>an American POW, who is alive and looks to be in good shape.
>
>bruce



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