[OldFriend]

Media breathlessly reporting that Murtha is a Marine.

Lee Harvey Oswald was a Marine too.

[wideawake]

Someone on another thread was already claiming that he was a Marine "lifer" who served 37 years, implying it was active duty.

He served a few years active duty during Korea but not in Korea, did the GI Bill thing, owned a carwash for a decade, went to Vietnam for a year at the age of 35(!) and went immediately into politics where he's been ever since.

Honorable enough service on its own terms - yet note the Democrat need to embellish.