Friends,

Everybody wants to be a Ranger---just don't want to do what it takes to be
one.

SJ

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> From: Michael J. Rosenberg 
> To: Snowdancr@worldnet.att.net
> Cc: Steve Jaeger ; Roy Lombardo
; Jim Grimshaw ; Steve Maguire
; Art Silsby 
> Subject: Re: Wanabee's
> Date: Saturday, March 21, 1998 6:58 PM
> 
> Rangers,
> 
> John heard the right message, different source.  The article, "Lawyering
> in the Limelight" by Daniel Klaidman and Mark Hosenball, appears in the
> March 23 issue of NEWSWEEK, third column, page 32, excerpted as follows:
> 
> " . . . Ginsburg's theatricality may have led him to overdramatize at
> least one aspect of his personal history.  He told his high school
> classmate Joel Siegel, now a film critic for ABC-TV in New York, that he
> had served as a captain in the airborne Rangers in the Army, an elite
> parachute unit.  Asked by NEWSWEEK about this claim, Ginsburg repeatedly
> answered, "I was a captain in the infantry."  Asked to elaborate, he
> said, "It's not an experience I want to remember."  Ginsburg's military
> records, obtained by NEWSWEEK, show that he was discharged from the Army
> Reserve in 1975 with the rank of first lieutenant.  Enlisting in 1969,
> in his early service he was described as a "wheel-vehicle repairman" in
> the infantry.  Commissioned as an officer in 1971, he joined the Judge
> Advocate General's Corps, the Army's legal arm.  Confronted with his
> records, he said he was offered promotion to captain if he stayed in the
> service, but he declined. . "
> 
> The background of the piece as it relates to Ginsburg and the legal
> trade is not especially complimentary.  As I read the article, it once
> again occurred to me that we are indeed fortunate to have John Hollstein
> - - a Ranger attorney of unimpeachable integrity and rich character - -
> as our counsel and consultant.
> 
> On request, I will fax the 2-page article to you individually.  By
> e-mail, just send your fax number to me.
> 
> Thanks for the relevant and timely note, John.
> 
> Mick

Following is heads-up from John Hollstein regarding this story;
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Of interest, I just heard this morning [still should check it out] 
out that Ginzberg (Monica's trash lawyer) told the press that he had been a
"captain in the Airborne-Rangers".   "Time" magazine checked him out, and
found that he had only been a motor pool officer in a leg outfit and was
neither airborne nor Ranger.  
    When they confronted him about it, he said "that's a period I don't
want to talk about" and changed the subject. 
   Still hearsay to me at this point.  Shall see if it is written in
"Time".  Apparently it is.  Has anyone seen this.
    The good news is that publications are learning to check some boasts of
elite status.
    On a broader note.  We still need to develop a database of the names
and info of all Rangers sometime in the future.  I don't think we have seen
the end of this.
John