[Milsurplus] Re: Ricebox hams on WW2 warships...

[David Stinson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Richards" <mark.richards at massmicro.com>
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Re: Ricebox hams on WW2 warships...


> David Stinson wrote:
> Korea?  Vietnam?  Some of these fine ships served in other wars.

Doesn't matter to me which vets one honors,
as long as one does it honestly.
Icoms as a permanent installation
in a war memorial isn't honest.
 
>> IMHO, a plastic radio station installed on a WWII memorial
>> honors no one.  It's self-indulgent and disrespectful.
> Both "self-indulgent" and "disrespectful" are subjective.  It is in the 
> eye of the beholder...

I did say : "IMHO." 

> Try "I felt that this was inaccurate and might 
> mislead the general public".

"Self-indulgent" and "disrespectful" is what I said
and it's exactly what I meant, thank you. 

> The very general public has not the foggiest idea.

I'm not interested in "the general public."
They go from womb to tomb and leave nothing behind 
them but expended resources and excreted wastes.
I'm interested in the "one-percenters;" the 
20-year-old who loved his grandfather and
who can be lead toward deeper appreciations, 
and instead has his cynicisms reenforced by
an "MTV-video" fake-up,  which is what
he gets everywhere else in our culture.
We can do better by him, and we should.
 
> Your refusal to participate in an event because they were not using the 
> exact equipment specification throws the baby out with the bathwater.
Not at all.  Doing so does damage as described above. 

>> The pleasure of sharing your own experiences, and the benefit that 
> others would gain from them, are now denied because a certain radio was 
> not used.
One must weigh the pleasures on the one hand
and the damage on the other.  I am perfectly willing- even eager-
to participate in an event designed to honor WWII vets.
But I have more urgent tasks than to participate in 
tooting our own horn, which is what "YeaComWooding" 
a WWII memorial does.

D.S.