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One is a 'Living Memorial'Ī man passed through wearing a gold earring and a glow-in-the-dark silk jacket with a map of Vietnam embroidered on it and lettered reminders of Chu Lai and Da Nang, 1965-66. Brown in the bar Wednesday night, ''you can't understand.'' He asked not to be identified, and then launched into a description of sex in Asia that was not bawdy at all but tender. ''Unless you were in Vietnam,'' said that ex-infantry sergeant who was talking to Mr. Near sundown, mud-spattered vehicles festooned with bumper stickers that say ''I'd rather be killing Communists,'' and ''Forget 'Nam? Never!'' return to the hotel with people in fatigues, puttees and combat boots. Off in the hickory woods of the Charlotte Rifle and Pistol Club, a weeklong shooting contest has been going on, with 127 contestants. Jump School and Shooting MatchĪ group of former paratroopers from Louisiana who organized a paramilitary club called the ''First Airborne'' have been running a parachute jump school at the airport in Lancaster, S.C., 40 miles south of here. Though the convention officially began this morning with the opening of the Soldier of Fortune gun show and exhibition at the Charlotte Civic Center and the beginning of seminars on everything from the siege at Khe Sanh to the Russians in Afghanistan, scores of participants have been here since Monday. And there must be a good firing range nearby as well as an adequate DZ, or drop zone, for parachuting demonstrations. Automatic weapons must be allowed, for instance, for there are machine gun demonstrations. Selection of a convention site depends on a state's gun laws. The popularity of the convention, which began essentially as a shooting match in Columbia, Mo., two years ago, has increased the number of participants from 700 then to 870 last year in Scottsdale, Ariz., and to 1,500 this autumn in North Carolina. Brown, is so great that ''I would say I'm probably wealthy on paper but not in my bank account.'' He added, ''We are financially very healthy on paper. ''We are saying there were just as many heroes in the Vietnam War as in World War I and World War II, just as many Sergeant Yorks and Audie Murphys.
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''We are saying he was forgotten,'' he went on. Brown, who is 49 years old and difficult to portray verbatim because he is incapable of speaking without profanity, was saying Wednesday night that his publication is ''consistently plugging the Vietnam veteran.'' Brown's published words, ''is a politically conservative, action adventure magazine which reports on contemporary and historical subjects.'' He added, ''It is anti-Communist, pro-military, propolice and pro-veterans and we strongly support the individual's rights to keep and bear arms.'' 'Plugging the Vietnam Veteran' ''I hit a market.''ĭemographic studies of the magazine's readers show that 11 percent are law-enforcement officers, 12 percent are active-duty personnel and 48 percent are military veterans. Paid subscriptions now number 220,000 and the magazine is securely in the black. Brown, with an initial press run of 8,500 copies, it has over the years touched a nerve with many Vietnam veterans as well as with survivalists who want to arm themselves to the teeth. Begun in the Boulder, Colo., basement of an ex-G.I., Mr. Soldier of Fortune is a seven-year-old militaristic publication packed with vitriol and ordnance. It is sad in that there are not-so-old soldiers here who seem stuck in another time, forever stuck. Brown, told a former infantry sergeant at the bar Wednesday night, to give combat veterans attentive listeners for their war stories, since no one else in America appears to want to hear them.
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It is sadly necessary, Soldier of Fortune's editor and publisher, Robert K. It is scary in that the most venal views from the nation's last battlefield - ''Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out'' is an example - are everywhere strung about. club, the lusty songs of fighting men sung at the top of the lungs. It is fun in that the hotel bar has become a rollicking N.C.O. But what is also taking place in Charlotte this week is, depending on the point of view, harmless fun, scary, sadly necessary or just plain sad. Since the first camouflage-clad participants began checking in Monday, the chef reports, there hasn't been a single call for quiche. It is a third annual gathering sponsored by Soldier of Fortune Magazine, and it looks like nothing so much as a bloodless takeover of a local Holiday Inn. A convention commenced here today with delegates who include some who see a compromise as a deal in which the other party gives up breathing.