REO Speedwagon and STYX - It is time to dump American Embarrassment Ted Nugent from the Tour!

[pinboy3niner]

42. In my Vietnam vets' group, years ago...

...some of us were invited every year to speak about the war to a high school class on 'Major Events of the 20th Century.'

On my first visit, I noticed 'VIETNAM' spelled out across the back wall of the classroom in letters 2-3 feet high. Then I learned that the letters were made of 58,000 straightpins the students had spent 5 minutes each day putting in.

The next year, the back wall was covered with a collage of 58,000 faces the students had cut from magazine photos.

The teacher, it turned out, had been a VN War protester and draft dodger. For refusing to report when drafted, he was sentenced to 2 years in prison. I can't remember now whether he served the full term or just 18 months, but he did time in prison.

Our group of VN combat vets had enormous respect for that teacher. He accepted the consequences, and sacrificed, to honor his principles.

To use a Vietnamese expression, Nugent isn't worth that teacher's little fingernail.