refresh my memory - isn't Mel a chickenhawk?

[northernsoul]

Wasn't his family originally from upstate NY, but then moved to Australia because certain members of the Gibson clan didn't particularly want to go to 'Nam?

[punpirate]

1. Gibson's father...

emigrated to Australia because he objected to the war and didn't want his sons fighting in it, or so the story goes. Mel Gibson was perhaps thirteen or fourteen when the family went to Australia.

[stopthegop]

2. if that's accurate you can't really blame Mel..

[northernsoul]

4. doesn't exactly enhance his tough-guy image though

wonder how all his new-found friends in the Talibornagain feel about that

[Kamika]

3. Gibson is Catholic

..there are alot of catholic democrats


I honestly don't know Mel's party affiliation

[Doomsayer13]

15. Mel is Conservative

I don't know whether he's a Republican, but he's a rather conservative Catholic.

[Doctor_J]

5. No, I saw him

kick some Turkish ass in NA. Wait, that was Galipoli ;-)

[skrunch]

13. But ...he got a nasty rifle butt to the head and lost an eye...

...covering the fall of Sukarno in 1965 for Australian Radio.

(oh wait...that was "The Year Of Living Dangerously"...never mind)

[Champion Jack]

6. Mel did plenty of fightin'

didn't you see Mad Max?

[loudnclear]

7. I don't blame anyone for not wanting to go or not going to Viet Nam

I just despise the people who didn't go smearing others who didn't go, for whatever the reason. i hate the phony "patriots" who ridicule and attack anti-war protestors when, in fact, the phony patriots did whatever it took to avoid going to Viet Nam and are now some of the biggest, most arrogant hawks.

[wellstone_democrat]

8. I believe Australia WAS in Viet Nam with us

am I correct?

[Kamika]

10. yes

you are correct.

I do however think that they didn't have a draft.

[jmowreader]

11. Google "Australian Army Training Team Vietnam"

Basically Aussie special forces. Tough bunch.

[maveric]

9. Mel was born in 1956. Too young to go to Viet Nam.

[alcuno]

12. I thought Mel's dad was an end-of-timer.

Moved the family to Australia to escape some America-ending event.

[Algorem]

14. He didn't show up in "Teen Lust" either.That girl had to settle for Dave

Hardman.What's up with that?