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Commie Pinko Fag

January 22nd, 2012

Commy Pinko Fag

This is how describe my political leanings on facebook:  “commypinkofag”.  Accurate, and I am not going to change it for the sake of not hurting anyone’s feelings.

Commy  (commie):

I left Wabash College after my sophomore year in a state of total confusion.  Didn’t know who I was ( hadn’t yet realised my own homosexuality), was totally unsure of my future (I had entered college as pre-theo, that is, pre-theological seminary), and under attack (there were rumors about me being a ‘faggot’ flying about the campus, most of which I was unaware of until the Dean took me aside and asked  me, “is it true”? )

I took a year off from college (I planned it to be only a year), and started working in a nearby publishing company’s art department.  But I knew I didn’t want to do that for the rest of my life:  I wanted to finish college.

Then I heard about a program of the US Navy appealed to me:  NAVCAD, or Naval Cadet, which took guys with two years of college, trained them to be Navy pilots (as officers), and would also pay for them to complete college.  Sounded like a good deal to me.  Note:  this is 20 years before “The Right Stuff” came out.

I applied; passed all the test with flying colors; then waited to hear of my acceptance into the program.

I waited and waited and waited.  Several months later, I got a visit from the FBI.

FBI wanted to know:  Why did you subscribe to “The Weekly People”?  Why did you have a subscription to “The Nation”?

Hey, when I was a senior in high school, I wanted to learn about a lot of thing, among them politics and society.  So I found ads in the back of Saturday Review of Literature, to which my parents subscribed, that i thought would be interesting.

We’re talking about a 16-year-old boy, here.

The two FBI agents wanted to know how long I had been suscribed to these publications, what my political affiliations were (I was still 19, at that time unable to vote), who recommended these publications to me, and did I have anyfurther connection t them?

What they did not ask me about was my subscription to the newsletter of the John Birch Society.  And to the National Review.

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