[A Navy Vet]

Yup, people die from just being born. Just hope he was an honorable Marine. That would mean he served his Nation well in his short time on Earth and has a legacy his family can be proud of.

[dead]

Amen.

[jonascord]

As a rule, speaking as a Marine, Staff NCOs tend toward the most honorable. They are men who KNOW their chosen professions aren't going to make them rich, that their families are going to wear hand-me-downs, the furniture is from Goodwill salvage stores, that they are going to spend a lot of time missing their families.

Perhaps, worst, are deployments, when staff NCO wives always wonder if a staff car is going to pull up in front of a shabby cinderblock duplex, with an officer and a chaplain.

I don't know about today, but back when, I knew E-7s and E-8s who had to work extra part time, smoked hand rolled to save money, and you literally lived at the whim of some idiot like Obama.