The traditional name for the U.S. Marine Corps is "Soldiers of the Sea"
SOLDIERS OF THE SEA: ARE MARINES SOLDIERS?....Gunny G's!
Posted on 02/15/2006 6:51:30 AM PST by rattrap
I would not want her in my septic tank. Much less anywhere else.
The traditional name for the U.S. Marine Corps is "Soldiers of the Sea"
SOLDIERS OF THE SEA: ARE MARINES SOLDIERS?....Gunny G's!
Thank you for your most informative and polite response. It is greatly appreciated.
Please read this thread. Note what has been going on.
You tell us how you have nothing but respect for soldiers and yet in your very first post on this thread you went out of your way to call Col. Boyington a poor soldier, and now you have the gall to say Marines are not soldiers.
I never said Marines weren't soldiers, I said they prefered not to be called just soldiers, there is a vast difference which escapes you.
Just like it escapes you that your comments on Col. Boyington are no better then Jill Edwards' comments on Col.Boyington.
Your's of course are padded with a compliment or two to cushion the impact as well as cover your rear, but they are no less as derogatory as hers were. You have called him a drunk, a poor soldier, questioned why The Flying Tigers didn't like him and said that he fought with his superiors.
None of this things are germane to why he should be honored, He should be honored because he was a hero, a legend, and Icon, a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient and a Great American.
You like to point out his faults, and no man is without them, but we shouldn't let them stop us from honoring our heros.
To me at least, everyone that absolutely has to point out all the faults of the great men and women of this country, the failings of all the heros and heroines, are doing nothing to honor them, they are actively discrediting them so that future generations of Americans won't have heros to study and learn from.
Those that do so are lower then the scumbags that tell other peoples' toddlers that Santa Claus is a phony and doesn't exist. At least with our real heros, they accomplished great deeds.
I suppose your next post will be to reminder me that I "Really" haven't read this thread and "really" don't know what you are trying to said, sadly I do know exactly what you are trying to do.
I blame it all on Aviator Envy, or the senseless fear of men with big watches.
Does it really matter? If you'll notice his second picture he's wearing a baseball cap. Does that make him a baseball player? An Umpire? A Vampire?
He OBVIOUSLY meant soldier in the generic sense (as in soldier OR civilian) in his first post. Fight the enemy, not the FRiend.
Off to bed for me! Play nice, folks. We're all on the same side here!
P.S. Supernatural, your neice, Kaylee, is stunning! Since this is FR, I should amend that by saying she's "stuning"! Seriesly!
for those that would like to write Jill Edwards:
jae6@u.washington.edu
Don't be violent or obscene. Just let her know, she's not the kind of person you would want anyone to be like.
Thank for the link.
I had already sent her an e-mail.
I kept it decent but it was very difficult.
As of this date I have had no response from her nor was I expecting one.
someone sent me her AIM name. I saw her online last night. She would not talk to me. I was actually somewhat nice. But now she decides to shut her mouth. Go figure.
The bad part is that she has a larger following than I would like the sob to have.
And
When you think that one day sobs like this will be runnng the Country.......
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