> CP wrote --
>> > I made some remark about our softening the beaches for them so they can
> just stroll ashore and go for walks along the beach.
>>
>> Always fun to tweak the noses of friendly Marines, like:
> We do have fun teasing each other at times.
> Thought Dickie usually starts it. :)
>> Q: Why does each USNavy ship have one Marine on board? A: A sheep would be
> too obvious.
> LOL
> Never heard that one before.
>> Finally one comes crawling back to tell his sergeant, "It's a trap, sir --
> there're two of them!"
Feel free to use either in your future interactions with Marines -- friendly,
pompous, or otherwise -- I always tell them as a couplet, in the order to suit
which type I'm talking with.
I know you're going to have a certain amount of instant respect for any US
troop of any section, being a veteran yourself, you understabd, deeply, how one
commits one's time & life to the defense of all.
Oi'vce not had that privilege so I learn from others I talk with throughout my
travels. I seem to met a lot of US Marines, even though I'm up here in Canada.
As well as the usual mixed bag of those who were 'posted up here' for their
Viet Nam call-up.
I talk to them without judgement & generally respect their choice, unless it
wasa pure cowardice, then not as much -- Most , though, had strongly held
beliefs & principles re the draft &/or the US being in Viet Nam, at whatever
point in the war. (My dictionaries all call it a war, even if your Congress
didn't declare war, or was that for Korea they didn't?)
I've researched the event & the points that led to the US jumping in & I'm not
seeing the point where it was warranted by US citizens; interests, besides a
handful of billionaire Big Steel, & the like, corporations.
This isn't a direct memory for me, as I wasa born near as it was just finishing
up. . .
For all people held against Nixon(much warranted, agreed), he was the one who
actually ended that era, & brought the American soldiers home.
No heroism, per se -- he was permitted to, whereas JFK was not. :(
--- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-5
* Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)
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