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RIP Adrian Cronauer

posted by martyb on Sunday July 22 2018, @07:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the Gooooooooooood-morning-Vietnam! dept.

Adrian Cronauer, the real live DJ portrayed by Robin Williams in the movie "Good Morning Vietnam" just passed, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44897634 (many other obits also available).

Keen to travel, Cronauer says he actually volunteered for a transfer to Vietnam, where he was hired initially as a news director for Armed Forces Radio there.

After his morning presenter left, he took up the 06:00 Dawn Buster show mantle, greeting troops with an enthusiastic yell of: "GOOOOOOOOD morning, Vietnam!"

Cronauer soon found out while interviewing troops that his ironic salute was often met with "the GI equivalent of: Get stuffed Cronauer" on bad days, he recounted at a veterans event in 2008.

"On one occasion, a guy picked up his M16 and blew away his radio," he told the Americans Veterans Centre conference.

Did any Soylentils hear him — live — in Vietnam?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 22 2018, @08:27PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 22 2018, @08:27PM (#710874)

    Interesting, never heard that term before. Could you clarify what you mean by "shifting right"?

    From Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]:

    Overton described a spectrum from "more free" to "less free" with regard to government intervention, oriented vertically on an axis, to avoid comparison with the left-right political spectrum.

  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday July 23 2018, @03:52AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday July 23 2018, @03:52AM (#711050) Journal

    Socially right, then, what Overton refers to as "less free." Authoritarian.

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