'Iraq and The Children of Bush"

This is ridiculous. PC goes WAY back before Kennedy.

By Lana McGraw Boldt (0.0.0.0) on Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 2:00 pm: Edit Post

If you're going to leave comments, please make them historically accurate. Historical ignorance condemns us all to repetition of past apocolyptic choices. Kennedy proposed the Peace Corps as a national service option in the fall of 1960 or possibly the spring of 1961. I remember standing alone in my dorm room at the University of Oregon my freshman year, listening to his speech over the radio in which he proposed a national peace corps in which Americans could serve the better good of the world. I said at that time that it made the most sense of any foreign policy I'd ever heard proposed. In 1967 my husband and I joined the Peace Corps to fulfill that promise. The staff in what we were told was the first in-country training said that we were "the last of the Kennedy Fire-breathers". I hope with all my idealistic heart that they were wrong and we were not the last. But please note: The American Peace Corps did NOT predate Kennedy.

By Lana McGraw Boldt (ts46-01-qdr1672.mdfrd.or.charter.com - 66.169.230.136) on Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 2:00 pm: Edit Post

If you're going to leave comments, please make them historically accurate. Historical ignorance condemns us all to repetition of past apocolyptic choices. Kennedy proposed the Peace Corps as a national service option in the fall of 1960 or possibly the spring of 1961. I remember standing alone in my dorm room at the University of Oregon my freshman year, listening to his speech over the radio in which he proposed a national peace corps in which Americans could serve the better good of the world. I said at that time that it made the most sense of any foreign policy I'd ever heard proposed. In 1967 my husband and I joined the Peace Corps to fulfill that promise. The staff in what we were told was the first in-country training said that we were "the last of the Kennedy Fire-breathers". I hope with all my idealistic heart that they were wrong and we were not the last. But please note: The American Peace Corps did NOT predate Kennedy.

By Lana McGraw Boldt (ts46-01-qdr1672.mdfrd.or.charter.com - 66.169.230.136) on Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 2:00 pm: Edit Post

If you're going to leave comments, please make them historically accurate. Historical ignorance condemns us all to repetition of past apocolyptic choices. Kennedy proposed the Peace Corps as a national service option in the fall of 1960 or possibly the spring of 1961. I remember standing alone in my dorm room at the University of Oregon my freshman year, listening to his speech over the radio in which he proposed a national peace corps in which Americans could serve the better good of the world. I said at that time that it made the most sense of any foreign policy I'd ever heard proposed. In 1967 my husband and I joined the Peace Corps to fulfill that promise. The staff in what we were told was the first in-country training said that we were "the last of the Kennedy Fire-breathers". I hope with all my idealistic heart that they were wrong and we were not the last. But please note: The American Peace Corps did NOT predate Kennedy.