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To: Godzilla
Well as a civilian you apparently don't have a clue about the military.

I've a very good friend who is a mustang marine officer, served in Vietnam, and he told me his officer training included the ten commandments until the know-betters in Washington worried that we might be training zealots. We lost our zeal for righteousness and we started losing battles.

There is simply no excuse for an "officer and a gentleman" using that language in front of rolling cameras--and if you think so--you are a flat out ignoramus. If I'm ignorant of the average military joe's pig-like mouth, than I thank the Lord for it.
88 posted on 09/07/2005 12:24:53 PM PDT by farmer18th ("The fool says in his heart there is no God.")
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To: farmer18th

"I've a very good friend who is a mustang marine officer, served in Vietnam, and he told me his officer training included the ten commandments until the know-betters in Washington worried that we might be training zealots. We lost our zeal for righteousness and we started losing battles.

There is simply no excuse for an "officer and a gentleman" using that language in front of rolling cameras--and if you think so--you are a flat out ignoramus. If I'm ignorant of the average military joe's pig-like mouth, than I thank the Lord for it."

And how long ago was Vietnam? My father also served back then and worked his way through OCS, onto a successful career as an officer, and then to retirement. He has raised five successful children, and is twice retired, and is now a small to medium business owner himself. He cusses everyday, but that doesn't change my opinion of him. He is an "officer and a gentleman." And yes, he does say G.D. at times. Does that make him any less of a person?

Listen - as I've stated before, you have your opinion, I have mine. You know nothing about me, just like I don't know anything about you, but if you can honestly sit there and tell me that you are a better person than me, because you don't cuss and/or use the lord's name in vain, so be it.


95 posted on 09/07/2005 12:55:43 PM PDT by otama
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