[AGL] looking for a MS Word guru
Michael Eisenstadt
eisenstadt0 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 19 12:14:28 EDT 2019
You are one linguistically lucky SOB. You got to learn French in a
child's window of language acquisition which closes down around 12 or
so. When you said you served in Nam I wondered how a GI would have the
time and desire to learn French from a local, Nam having been a French
colony. It's like Jodie Foster who learnt French at the Lycee Francais
high school in Los Angeles. She speaks flawless, accentless French - I
watched her acceptance speech at the Cesar awards - the French
equivalent of the Oscars. Of course, French ain't what it used to be.
Nowadays, most French speak a slurred idiolect which I am unable to
follow, not classical French where you can distinguish every phoneme
from the previous one.
As for Harvey Gann, that was the fun-loving cop who headed the APD drug
enforcement division back in Ghetto Daze arresting hippies for smoking
dope cigarettes.
On 4/19/2019 9:40 AM, Charles Loving wrote:
> My mother was French Swiss and I went to grade school in Switzerland.
> They taught Latin and German in the second grade. My father flew B-17s
> and was a POW with Harvey Gann for 24 months. I was born in Hendon and
> then went to France after the war ended and then to Germany and
> Switzerland. Cmae to Texas in 1952 or there about. A real downer in
> the school realm. No more gymnastics, no more Latin, German, or Algebra.
>
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 7:27 AM Michael Eisenstadt
> <mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com <mailto:mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Manning supplied part of a password to Julian Assange running
> Wikileaks. Assange was able to hack the entire password - Assange
> back in Australia as a teenager developped uncanny skill as a
> hacker. With the password, Manning was able to leak the
> intelligence reports of innumerable American war crimes abroad
> which Wikileaks published. Assange should get a Pulitzer Prize for
> investigative reporting, and in a just world, the World Court at
> the Hague would try and convict some of those who ordered or
> countenanced those war crimes. Instead, the Empire means to
> incarcerate Assange if it can get ahold of him for revealing its
> secret crimes. Obama pardonned Manning 7 years into his lifelong
> sentence.
>
> Question for Charlie Loving - where did you learn French? I am
> interested as I lived in France 1954-55 and revisited it a month
> at a time in 1998, several times in the 2000's, the last time in
> 2005, when we stayed in David and Cynthia Price's rented apartment
> near the Jardin de Luxembourg. David Price turns out to be Houston
> White's cousin. Small world!
>
> On 4/19/2019 1:00 AM, Frances Morey wrote:
>> I didn't pay attention to Manning either. But I did see the
>> military film of an attack of unarmed civilians from a helicopter
>> with automatic weapons. When the rescue ambulances came they,
>> too, were fired upon. I saw the killing and listened to the cold
>> dialogue of the men in the helicopter, making light of the
>> situation, laughing about the misery they had inflicted on these
>> unarmed citizens. I was shocked and horrified. It was MiLai
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 9:58 PM Charles Loving
>> <lovingigor at gmail.com <mailto:lovingigor at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> I don't know. I never paid any attention to Manning. I went
>> to Nam twice. Got a purple heart and then went to Zaire with
>> the French as a laison officer for the Americans. I spoke
>> French and Portuguese so I fit in pretty well. I don't recall
>> PTSD but I had a few nightmares. We did some pretty
>> intersting things in Angola and Katanga. We were defending
>> the money. Gulf Oile at the time and a few Mining companies.
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 10:31 AM Frances Morey
>> <frances.morey at gmail.com <mailto:frances.morey at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> I suppose you missed the film clips exposed by Chelsea
>> Manning. Some "soldiers" can't hack it and come back with
>> PTSD. Many of them end up as suicides. Humans who are
>> civilized were not bred to kill other humans. When forced
>> to do so some of them are unable to do it coldly.
>> Best,
>> Frances
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 7:49 AM Charles Loving
>> <lovingigor at gmail.com <mailto:lovingigor at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> What you say rings true. There are graduates from
>> Leakey and Nueches Canyon High School that can't pass
>> the Army entrance exam. Some that do are too obese
>> and get rejected on that basis. I actually know of
>> one graduate who tried three times to pass the test.
>> She was too dumb or just never learned a thing in
>> school. I know for a fact that she nevwer read a
>> book of anykind.
>>
>> Americans don't want mercenaries to defend them.
>> People like Mike Hoar in South Africa who had a group
>> of real thugs under his command. Commando 5. They
>> succeded in pacifying Katanga Province. Ex Nazi
>> stormtroppers who wore their Whermacht medals.
>>
>> I read a very interesting article about the French
>> Foreign Legion. The Legion didn't much care about
>> the history of their recruits. After the men went
>> through basic training they were pretty much turned
>> into tough killing machines that did what they were
>> told. Hazing was part of the process and the
>> sargeants and officers were at times sadistic. The
>> Hollywood versions make the soldiers look like
>> glorified heroic troops.
>>
>> I had the occasion to party with them in El Paso. The
>> legion sent troops to train at Fort Bliss. My mother
>> liked to entertain them and they were mean and hard .
>> I served with them in Zaire when I was there as
>> liaison between the French and US military mission.
>> They were a no holds barred group that didn't even
>> consider the Geneva Convention. They tied women to
>> the front of their APCs to keep the Frelimo and SWAPO
>> ambushed to a minimum. They also took no prisoners.
>> Mouths to feed that were unnecessary. A professional
>> group of soldiers. Something that Americans lack. We
>> have compassion.
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 6:47 AM Michael Eisenstadt
>> <eisenstadt0 at gmail.com
>> <mailto:eisenstadt0 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Frances,
>>
>> Interesting about the failure rate in
>> enlistmenting in the military. But probably just
>> a sizeable percentage of the rejects were grossly
>> overweight. Some of them failed to pass the IQ
>> test, others had multiple criminal convictions,
>> or had warrants out on them, others were
>> psychologically unfit. And others for other
>> reasons. Did you find a breakdown of the
>> rejection categories?
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> On 4/18/2019 12:48 AM, Frances Morey wrote:
>>> I was about to tell you to google it. I had a
>>> similar problem. I am making a talk about food
>>> education for the community college and I
>>> wondered if there was any problem with military
>>> recruitment due to overweight issues. Well, the
>>> recruiter at the US Army recruitment office in
>>> San Antonio told me he had no idea how many
>>> recruits were turned away. He suggested that I
>>> google it. What do you know, Google sent me to a
>>> story on the subject. A whopping 71% of those
>>> who apply to serve in the military are turned away!
>>> Best,
>>> Frances
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 6:21 PM Michael
>>> Eisenstadt <eisenstadt0 at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:eisenstadt0 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am ever so proud to announce that I
>>> figured out the Footnote Function
>>> tool all by myself. So I don't need the help
>>> of the AGL MSWord gurus.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> On 4/17/2019 4:33 PM, Michael Eisenstadt wrote:
>>> > Perhaps among the accomplished subscribers
>>> to our list there lurks a
>>> > MS Word guru.
>>> >
>>> > This is the problem. I had always manually
>>> typed in footnotes on the
>>> > bottom of the pages of whatever. I learned
>>> today that there is a
>>> > Footnote Function in Word which
>>> automatically inserts a footnote at
>>> > the bottom of the page.
>>> > I can put in the first footnote but I
>>> can't figure out how to put more
>>> > footnotes at the bottom of the same page.
>>> Can someone here help me to
>>> > surmount this hurdle and walk me through
>>> how to do it?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks in advance.
>>> >
>>> > Mike e.
>>> >
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Charlie Loving
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Charlie Loving
>>
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> --
> Charlie Loving
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