Capt. Scott O'Grady

caseyc@ALPHA.WCOIL.COM
Sat, 31 May 1997 11:46:26 -0400

CASEY (5/31)
This is just a quick off-topic notice that the Discovery Channel will
be airing a program Sunday evening (6/1) at 09:00 pm edt called "Behind
Enemy Lines: The Scott O'Grady Story". I've seen a couple of blurbs
about the show and it looks as if we are going to be told once again,to
the point of sickness, how god saved O'Grady, (but continues to let a lot
of other soldiers in similar situations die - god's will I guess).

For the most part I really enjoy the programing on Discovery but this
appears to be a lot of "thanking god" on O'Grady's part. Obviously I
haven't seen the show and must confess that I do not know to what
degree O'Grady's b.s. will be pushed down our throats. But in
expecting the worse, I already have Discovery's e-mail address
bookmarked, (viewer_relations@discovery.com), so I can express my
displeasure if the program turns out to be as bad as I fear.

BTW, Farrell wrote an excellent piece on O'Grady called "God, Captain
Scott O'Grady, and the Atlanta Braves" in the Jan/Feb 1996 issue of *TSR*.

Chuck Casey

"Were I to be again reduced to the chains of slavery, next to that
enslavement, I should regard being the slave of a religious master
the greatest calamity that could befall me... I...hate the corrupt
slaveholding, women-whipping, craddle-plundering, partial and
hypocritical Christianity of this land."
--Frederick Douglass, former slave