re: #70 ggt

Well, any *sane* person wouldn’t expect to leave alive and/or in one piece —I’d speculate that at the very least, the person had a death wish of some sort.

geez!

I’ve BEEN to the Pentagon, thru that very Subway terminal. Healthy Respect is the term I would use to describe my feelings at the time. I don’t know what term others might use.

Back in my ban-the-bomb protester days, we used to visit the Pentagon en masse. With permits and advance notice, of course. But still - we’d show up with a hundred people, including funny-looking Buddhist monks from Hiroshima and Nagasaki banging on loud-ass drums, and go into the building and stage all kinds of actions. I thought I was entering the Belly of the Beast, first time, and fully expected to be arrested and beaten into a pulp.

The men and women there were nothing but professional and polite. They honored our right of freedom of speech and assembly as though we were on the town common in Boston. Some even came up to us and said they agreed about the danger of installing Pershing II intermediate-range missiles in Germany with a launch-to-impact time of four (or was it six?) minutes to Moscow.

It takes a special kind of asshole - with a gun - to get shot at the Pentagon. And I’ll bet you dollars to Chinese doughnuts they didn’t fire until he actually pointed the damn thing at someone.

Hats off to our professional men and women at the Pentagon!