Reply #89: Thanks for not taking offense & responding thoughtfully. I didn't intend offense to you. [View All]

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I was reacting to the so-called prof's cheap stunt, which is a combo of practicing-psych-without-a-license and outright torture.

Yes, I sensed you were "a star" that the dude needed to gain dominance over. After all, we, who enlisted at the height when all around us were trying NOT to go, actually lived an existential challenge, while this "prof" was starring in his imaginary constructs. I really hope that dude departed teaching.


The relevance of Deer, to me, here, was the playing a life & death game with a gun, not that it, or almost any of the movies supposedly about Vietnam had any relevance to my Vietnam experience, either.


The helicopters ("choppers" to diehards) and the lights (flares, "smoking eyes" in one of my poems) in Apocalypse now had a certain ring for me, but not much else. The last line of the Michael FOX movie, where the Vietnamese girl in the U.S. tells him, "It's over now" was also a bit of a tugger.