Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 12:51:28 -0500
From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki)
Subject: M-I: New Telephone call from Wall street Journal!


Dear Cockroach readers, lists, exiles and Michael...

I was not going to write this letter. In fact conciously avoiding it! 

A couple of years back with the 20 year celebrations of the Viet Cong taking 
Saigon and I was on National TV the Wall Street Journal rang me up wanting 
to do and exile story.

And now last week a person called me up saying once again that he was from 
the London office of the wall Street Journal and on his way to the top 
meeting in Finland with Clinton and Yeltsin. 

He wondered how far i was away from Helsinki and once again telling me he 
would like to do a story on American exiles. He said that he heard that we 
celebrate the Fourth of July with flag waving and firecrackers in the 
traditional sense and wanted to get some pictures!

Once again I said that I nor any of the exiles are going to wave flags for 
anybody.

Then we started talking about my appeal at my homepage and he said i sounded 
a bit angry and posed the question of questions to me. He said.

Well Mr. Malecki, What if you don't get back? 

Wow! I almost have to admit that fucking hurt. And to top it all off he said 
what would you regret most if you never got back to the United states.

I was in shock by this fucking time. But I said the thing i would regret 
most is the  historical tradition of victorious American  armies marching 
down fifth avenue in a ticker tape parade. But that I would march down fifth 
avenue singing the International. Because we whipped the guys on wall 
streets asses!

The telephone conversation ended rather quickly after that. Sort of thanks 
Mr. Malecki good bye.

So I was depressed a few days and then actually got physically sick only 
today really beginning to perk up again. 

And one of the things that I find so really fucking extrodinary is that I 
can not even sing the International in English! (Only in Swedish..) And that 
I just might never get back to America. 

So that is the reality. Funny how sometimes reality in your intellectual 
head gets slapped in the face by raw gut emotions which are just their and 
despite all the stuff of putting it behind you a fucking telephone call from 
a creep wall street journal reporter takes you right of your fucking feet 
and floors you..

Anyhow I have decided that I want to learn the International in English so 
if i ever get the chance to march down Wall Street I can sing it in English. 
Does anybody have the text..

Warm Regards
Bob Malecki

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