Ciao joniphiles,
In the FWIW department.
"And I have always heard "Charlie Angel" which further supports your
>point,
> > Jerry..."Charlie" being the name that was used in Vietnam, although I
> > forget whether we called them that or they called us that."
The insurgents in South Viet Nam were called the Viet Cong, which got
shortened to "VC". The military uses a phonetic alphabet and "VC" is "Victor
Charlie", which got shortened to "Charlie", which came to mean the enemy.
During the Cold War the Russians were "Ivan" (don't know exactly why) and
during WW2 the Japanese were called "Tojo". Not sure what they called the
Germans other than "Krauts". Today we have all sorts of names for
Arabs/Moslems which need not be mentioned here. dave.
