No $hit Sherlock ... since 1775 ... you ungrateful turd.
Maybe he’s grown up since the “wardrobe malfunction” with Janet Jackson.
Maybe he will be moved enough to TRY and earn the right to wear the uniform of a United States Marine....but I doubt it.
Semper Fi
“No $hit Sherlock ... since 1775 ... you ungrateful turd.”
I’m willing to give him and most other young people a break. Let’s face it - they’ve gone through at least 12 years of schooling in a system that is largely an anti-American, liberal infested, God-hating mess. Most of what they have seen in pop culture is pure American hating BS. Most young people have been spoon fed nothing but lies and nonsense by their “betters” for most of their lives. For every kid that grew up in a household with a Dad that made sure they knew the truth, there are at least 10 more than have never heard nothing but liberal BS.
This just sounds to me like a young person finally finding out the truth and realizing that most everything they’d ever been told was wrong.
“Humble, concerned for others before themselves ... this was the type of person our Marine Corps was building. I was really blown away.”
It sounds like this guy always liked the military. And that what surprised him was their humility and concern for others. Most movies/ shows only show the gung-ho bad-ass side of the Marines I think, and probably where most of us get our ideas of them from. What is the saying for the Marines “No better friend, no worse enemy” I think? He only ever saw the ‘worse enemy’ part probably.
The man you're insulting wrote this:
We all have our own individual views on war… But, doesn’t that speak to just another thing that makes this country so special?? The fact that we can all wake up every morning and BE individual with a pure sense of freedom..? But, one thing that can’t be argued is that it’s because of the people who VOLUNTEER their lives to make sure that it’s protected at all times. And, like I said before, doing so while asking for nothing in return…
To people like me who get to benefit from this type of person… One with character and courage. With strength and bravery. With humility and honor… I say: Send your thanks. Do it however you can. Write a letter, type an email… Hell, buy ‘em a beer next time you run into someone from our Armed Forces in a bar. When they say thank you for that drink that cost you 3 bucks, they’ll mean it. They won’t take it for granted and, they won’t forget it.
Your snide insult does honour neither to you, nor to the United States Marine Corps.
You owe him an apology.
Let's give him the benefit of the doubt. He's grown up in the entertainment industry and probably never really understood what it meant to serve. Now that he's seen it first hand, he's moved and wrote a heart-felt tribute to the Marines. We need more people like him.
I think that reply is a bit harsh.
chillax - better late than ever- let’s not cultivate bad feelings by overdoing our response.
Tell him a simple thank you is all that is evern needed and wanted... from the people who protect his freedom
His thoughts didn’t seem ungrateful to me at all. To the contrary, he seemed awed by the Marines.
I see where you’re coming from. But to his credit at less he came around. I blame the liberal education in this country for why most people don’t have this view, they should have this understanding by the time they are 16 years old.
I say they should show:
World at War series 10th grade
Band of Brothers and The Pacific 11th grade
Civil War and Revolutionary war stuff every month for 12th grade
Thank you for your service in the U.S Marine Corps. I was fortunate enough to be raised in a time and in a household where I was taught about the sacrifice and service of our armed forces. Years later, I was honored to take a Troop of 36 Boy Scouts to the Marine Barracks at "8th and I" to watch the Friday evening parade. None of those young men will ever forget it. Three of them enlisted in the Marines.
Earlier this year, I read with some interest of efforts to recover the remains of the 'First Navy Seals,' who were really U.S. Marines who had fallen in combat on the shores of Tripoli.
We live in a era in which not everyone understands nor appreciates the sacrifices that were made at U.S. armed forces at Utah and Omaha Beaches, must less Marines at Tripoli, Belleau Wood, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Peleliu, Chosin Reservoir, Khe Sanh, and Somalia.
I know no specifics of Justin Timberlakes' upbringing. His parents were divorced when he was young I don't know if his father taught him about the role of America's armed forces in our freedom and the freedom's enjoyed by millions of others throughout the world. I do know that Timberlake, on his own or with assistance from his mother, was directed into the musical entertainment industry at a young age, which historical is not a place filled with role models of military patriotism. He was a member of the Mickey Mouse Club and likely attended school on set; I doubt that an entertainment teacher was politically disposed to teach him much about military history, nor that he spent time witnessing school pageants or plays on patriotism.
By the time he was fourteen, Timberlake was touring the world as a member of a hugely successful musical group as part of the music industry. In those formative years, I doubt he had many mentors who were conservative or who taught him about the role of the military.
Since then - or rather, since he was on the Mickey Mouse Club, he's been singing and acting and surrounded by the entertainment industry and those who speak against U.S. military involvement and the U.S. military.
Timberlake probably had an embarrassingly liberal view on both topics, but he had the class to accept an invitation to the Marine Corps Ball when asked through a video by Cpl. Kelsey De Santis.
You may choose to believe what you choose to believe and to write what you write. That is one of our Freedoms and Lord knows Marines have fought and died to preserve that right for me.
I like to think that a naive and brainwashed young man had an epiphany in the presence of Marines and That Which Is Right.
And I welcome epiphanies on the Road to Damascus or at the Marine Corps Ball.
And if I find myself in a bar with Justin Timberlake and a proud member of the Corps, I'll spend $6 and buy them both a beer.
Stand easy, Marine.
The popping sound you just heard was another liberal forceably ejecting their head from their anal cavity.
I generally clap and welcome them to reality. Don’t touch their heads though. You might get some on you.
You don’t know what you don’t know. At least he knows it now.