>>BS: Ritter, Glenn, Garwood, Lonetree, Kovic, Dennehy, Dellums, Carville, McFarlane, Oswald, etc. ... Plenty of ex-Marines.
OK, give me credit for my defense of the 99.99% of Marines who have served us so well, please?
The Marine who is bringing this suit to protect not only him, but his brother Marines, is certainly NOT an Ex-Marine.
The idea of an Ex-Marine is anathema to all right thinking Americans, and certainly all Marines who are just post service.
I would like to think I had the right idea here. When I see the term “Ex Marine” I bristle — part of my schooling here at FR.
I certainly give you credit.
A.A. Cunningham's meager list is proof that 99.99% of Marines will always be Marines, and I'm sure Cunningham would agree.
The problem is with the headline writers and journalists who are clueless to the meaning of the term "EX-Marine".
They don't get it, they have no clue that a cretin like Murtha is despised by Marines and is referred to by them as an "EX-Marine" as a way of cutting him out of the Corps and preserving the Corps' honor.
The same headline writers and journalists will never understand that a man like Justin Sharratt will always be a Marine, part of the eternal Corps that lives on with honor.