and, as I've said since 1967 : fuck the VFW !

Chickenhawk O’LOOFAH bamboozling VFW giving him The Erect Loofah award:

Bill's claim: 'I've been in combat' and Al Franken's funny radio sketch on it:

The Al Franken Show -- Sgt Bill O'Reilly, Tales Of Combat!

Probably aboard a Brit ship since Spanish is really ALIEN to him. He used the word "wetbacks" and had no clue that it was in the N-word category. He said later he was trying to think of the word for humans-smuggling ("coyote&quot . But his words-problems stretched to his sexual harassment episode, when he mixed up "loofah" and "fallafel."

But his cultural tone deafness might just go beyond his own provincial limits and REALLY in the RACIST category, since he said at an inner city event that he hoped the neighbor kids weren't stealing his hubcaps.

You probably know this old story of mine, Buddy, how in his "war correspondent" days at CBS, he was BigFooted by Bob SCHIEFFER. O'LOOFAH claims he, a peon in the network, had done all the research and reporting on his first big chance to get major air time, and the Suits decided it was too big a story for a lowly-him so they flew in SCHIEFFER to read the story on the air. "Big Footing" is where a network star gets all the credit for the work of an unknown.

That's one of the many sources of his resentment against the networks, his chip on his shoulder, yet how he CRAVES recognition from the Names. Bahbwah WAHWAH, an attention glutton herself, certainly kisses up to him.

is little more than a drinking club
for rear area Rambo wanna-be's.

"in their own minds"

It takes 9 support personnel for every front line soldier so figure the odds in a Post with
say 100 members.

Very few of the combat vets I know ( a few LRRP's, Paratroopers and 1 former spook)
every say a damned thing about it. It took me 40 years to "open up" to anyone.
We survive, frozen in time, on the fringes of society.

Maybe a little bit of gambling, just like the clubs on the bases.

He fought in the Battle of the Bulge.

According to him, the VFW and the American Legion are drinking clubs for army typists. He avoided them.

My uncle (and namesake) never got that far.
He was KIA at Normandy.