[Fantasywriter]

If you are really an ex-Marine, you have tarnished my image of the corps. I picture Marines as honorable and honest. Now I see them as people who talk about other people’s ‘community’ and ‘orientation’ yet deny they’re calling them homosexuals; they tell them they’re late for ‘electroshock therapy’ but deny they’re calling them a headcase.

[bvw]

People are people. The Marines improve many a man. But people are people. Generalizations don’t even work with Generals, much less any one else.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

I thought we'd agreed here not to "to" each other? This latest kerfluffle started with me making a comment that most military folks I know think that Lakin was a "d-bag". Guys in the Marines actually talk that way, you know. Even (gasp) the officers. It's not quite the Boy Scouts, even if a lot of us were at one time.

And I can guarantee you that the vast majority of Marine officers are not fans of the Presidett, but they do their duty, refuse to politicize their commissions, and they follow the orders of their superiors. They properly leave it for the courts and political system to sort this out rather than pulling a low-rent Beer Hall putsch.

You took offense at my salty reference, so I was having a bit of fun with your bizarre assertion that the phrase has a homosexual connotation. I've honestly never heard anyone associate "d-bag" with homosexuality. Sorry if I offended your sensibilities with some sarcasm.

Now please quit posting to me.