From: dannyb@panix.com   
      
   In  INVALID_SEE_SIG@example.com.invalid (J.D.   
   Baldwin) writes:   
      
      
   >In the previous article, Louis Epstein   wrote:   
   >> (I have to wonder,would the military really not take steps to retire   
   >> a terminally ill officer from a major command if his condition were   
   >> obvious?...   
      
   >A diagnosis of cancer, serious treatment for same, loss of voice --   
   >yeah, that guy's not going to be on active duty anymore. No chance.   
   >But it was nice that they contrived a role for him. I got a kick out   
   >of it and completely forgave the momentary lapse in strict   
   >verisimilitude for which the "Top Gun" pictures are justly known.   
   >--   
      
   you mean like Jennifer Connelley and Tom Cruise going sailing on,   
   a, well, sailboat, for the very first time, and as it goes up and   
   down and rolls left and right and back and forth quite energetically   
   we see neither one of them is wearing a life vest?   
      
   (quite possibly optional in Ms. Connelley's case...)   
      
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