# Alan Moore, 61 Year Old Viet Nam Vet, YOU ROCK, DUDE!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 3, 2011, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-moore-61-year-old-viet-nam-vet-you-rock-dude/595018 "2011-09-03T01:17:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-moore-61-year-old-viet-nam-vet-you-rock-dude/595018/1 "2011-09-03T01:17:07Z")

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I saw this today on the news. I’m 61 too, and many times have I thought of throwing in the towel, but if this [guy](http://www.armytimes.com/news/2011/09/gannett-army-vietnam-veteran-plays-college-football-090211)can do it, so can I.

Go Alan! You da Man!

Q

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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-moore-61-year-old-viet-nam-vet-you-rock-dude/595018/2 "2011-09-03T01:28:26Z")

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Nice, **Quasi**!

My dad is a 61-year-old Vietnam Vet, too and I’m going to share this story with him!

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-moore-61-year-old-viet-nam-vet-you-rock-dude/595018/3 "2011-09-03T03:24:29Z")

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Moving thread from IMHO to MPSIMS.

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**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-moore-61-year-old-viet-nam-vet-you-rock-dude/595018/4 "2011-09-03T04:27:27Z")

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Go for it Quasi!!

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-moore-61-year-old-viet-nam-vet-you-rock-dude/595018/5 "2011-09-03T14:03:58Z")

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> His journey to this point is something that makes Hollywood screenwriters salivate. (And it just happens a screenwriter has already contacted school officials about turning Moore’s story into a movie.)

Maybe they can get 60-year-old [Tony Danza](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142306/combined) to play him. 😃

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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-moore-61-year-old-viet-nam-vet-you-rock-dude/595018/6 "2011-09-03T16:43:08Z")

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> [@ZipperJJ](#):
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> Nice, **Quasi**!
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> My dad is a 61-year-old Vietnam Vet, too and I’m going to share this story with him!

Hey **Zip**! Yeah! Please do share that with your Dad, and let him know a fellow vet sent it, please?

I still remember your kindness to this “old man” in posting my song “M for Maggie” to YouTube, thank you so much!

Everyone who visits us has to listen to it, and I tell them all the same thing: “I had to suffer for my art, now it’s _your_ turn!”

Thanks, Hon!

Quasi