[Peace-discuss] "Trampling out the Vineyard, where the grapes of wrath are stored..."

[E. Wayne Johnson]

this is a great piece...

reminds me of the story of the fellow who was daily calling the offices of a
certain recently deceased Mr. Brown and asking to speak to Mr. Brown,
only to be politely told in reassuring tones that Mr. Brown had recently 
passed away.

After a few days of this, the receptionist recognized the fellow's voice.

"Say, aren't you the guy who calls in here every day?
Mr. Brown is DEAD.
He won't be coming to the office.
Why do you keep calling in?"

"It makes me feel so good to hear you say it."








On 7/7/2009 12:43 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> [Once on Martha's Vineyard the artist in question was pointed out to 
> me as a local celebrity.  --CGE]
>
>
>     Posted on Monday, July 6, 2009
>     Commentary: Galloway on McNamara: Reading an obit with great pleasure
>     By Joseph L. Galloway     | McClatchy Newspapers
>
>     "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries
>     with great pleasure." —Clarence Darrow (1857–1938)
>
> Well, the aptly named Robert Strange McNamara has finally shuffled off 
> to join LBJ and Dick Nixon in the 7th level of Hell.
>
> McNamara was the original bean-counter — a man who knew the cost of 
> everything but the worth of nothing.
>
> Back in 1990 I had a series of strange phone conversations with 
> McMamara while doing research for my book We Were Soldiers Once And 
> Young. McNamara prefaced every conversation with this: "I do not want 
> to comment on the record for fear that I might distort history in the 
> process." Then he would proceed to talk for an hour, doing precisely 
> that with answers that were disingenuous in the extreme — when they 
> were not bald-faced lies.
>
> Upon hanging up I would call Neil Sheehan and David Halberstam and run 
> McNamara's comments past them for deconstruction and the addition of 
> the truth.
>
> The only disagreement I ever had with Dave Halberstam was over the 
> question of which of us hated him the most. In retrospect, it was 
> Halberstam.
>
> When McNamara published his first book — filled with those distortions 
> of history — Halberstam, at his own expense, set out on a journey 
> following McNamara on his book tour around America as a one-man truth 
> squad.
>
> McNamara abandoned the tour.
>
> The most bizarre incident involving McNamara occurred when he was 
> president of the World Bank and, off on his summer holiday, he caught 
> the Martha's Vineyard ferry. It was a night crossing in bad weather. 
> McNamara was in the salon, drink in hand, schmoozing with fellow 
> passengers. On the deck outside a vineyard local, a hippie artist, 
> glanced through the window and did a double-take. The artist was 
> outraged to see McNamara, whom he viewed as a war criminal, so 
> enjoying himself.
>
> He immediately opened the door and told McNamara there was a 
> radiophone call for him on the bridge. McNamara set down his drink and 
> stepped outside. The artist immediately grabbed him, wrestled him to 
> the railing and pushed him over the side. McNamara managed to get his 
> fingers through the holes in the metal plate that ran from the top of 
> the railing to the scuppers.
>
> McNamara was screaming bloody murder; the artist was prying his 
> fingers loose one at a time. Someone heard the racket and raced out 
> and pulled the artist off.
>
> By the time the ferry docked in the Vineyard McNamara had decided 
> against filing charges against the artist, and he was freed and walked 
> away.
>
> http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/71328.html
>
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