“This is the most disturbing thing I have ever watched, I was hoping it was a gag, staged....these are United States marines!!!!?? “
Every parent I know has memorized the words to every Disney song. I laughed my bottom off. They’re just kids having fun.
I was in Wal-Mart and this really young Marine was behind me so I struck up a conversation. He was buying a bag of (Twizlers I think.) I noticed that was the only thing he had, a kid’s candy.
We sold Twizzlers at the snack bar at our boys’ high school baseball games. You would be amazed at how many adults love Twizzlers. And so does my hubby, but he uses our children as an excuse to buy them.
“I was in Wal-Mart and this really young Marine was behind me so I struck up a conversation. He was buying a bag of (Twizlers I think.) I noticed that was the only thing he had, a kid’s candy.”
Yeah so?
I showed this to my Marine son when it was making the rounds on Facebook a few months ago. He laughed like crazy and explained it to me.
He said, as you did, that these are kids, 18 and 19 years old, horsing around. They would rather be watching what they consider to be a good movie, but they got sent this Disney thing for little girls. So they’re making he best of it: they’re having fun with it. Young guys can be pretty silly when they’re doing dangerous stuff all day and there is no booze or women they can blow off steam with.
My son can act like a love-struck doofus when confronted with a new bitchpup, his sister can immobilize him with tickles, and he will giggle and pretend to be scared when his old father (who is half his size) pretends to spank him. But under all that is a very serious warfighter. Don’t worry, our Marines are tough.