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Ya gotta love those Marines
E-mail | Oct. 12, 2001 | unknown

Posted on 10/12/2001 11:42:57 AM PDT by Colt .45

Subject: Love those Marines

Marine Corps General Reinwald was interviewed on the radio the other day and you have to read his reply to the lady who interviewed him concerning guns and children. Regardless of how you feel about gun laws, you gotta love this!!!!

This is one of the best comeback lines of all time. It is a portion of a National Public Radio (NPR) interview between a female broadcaster and US Marine Corps General Reinwald who was about to sponsor a Boy Scout Troop visiting his military installation.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: So, General Reinwald, what things are you going to teach these young boys when they visit your base?

GENERAL REINWALD: We're going to teach them climbing, canoeing, archery, and shooting.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: Shooting! That's a bit irresponsible, isn't it?

GENERAL REINWALD: I don't see why, they'll be properly supervised on the rifle range.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: Don't you admit that this is a terribly dangerous activity to be teaching children?

GENERAL REINWALD: I don't see how. We will be teaching them proper rifle discipline before they even touch a firearm.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: But you're equipping them to become violent killers!!

GENERAL REINWALD: Well, you're equipped to be a prostitute, but you're not one, are you?

The radio went silent and the interview ended. All over America, people were thinking: Semper Fi, Marine!!


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I am in the Navy, and I was thinking "Now there's a Marine's Marine!" Good on him for telling it like it is!
1 posted on 10/12/2001 11:42:57 AM PDT by Colt .45 (Ordierat@yahoo.com)
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We need a new category: Golden Oldies
2 posted on 10/12/2001 11:45:50 AM PDT by Jack Wilson
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Sorry Colt.45, this has been posted many times in infinite permutations.

If I remember correctly, this dialogue never took place with anyone on NPR.

3 posted on 10/12/2001 11:48:07 AM PDT by Incorrigible
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4 posted on 10/12/2001 11:48:22 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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That's so old a dinosaur stepped on it.
5 posted on 10/12/2001 11:48:54 AM PDT by aomagrat
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Hope ya got yer flame retardant undies on...
Cuz yer about to get it from the "urban legend police"!
6 posted on 10/12/2001 11:48:59 AM PDT by cuz_it_aint_their_money
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We need a new category: Golden Oldies

Make that "Bogus Golden Oldies"..

7 posted on 10/12/2001 11:49:43 AM PDT by TomServo
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HOAX HOAX

But a good story anyway.

Remember it and use it when you get a chance with a news twit.

8 posted on 10/12/2001 11:50:45 AM PDT by dts32041
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I heard it was Ted Nugent who did this interview.....
9 posted on 10/12/2001 11:50:45 AM PDT by 101viking
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LOL,about da*m time someone spoke up.

Ma~Bear

10 posted on 10/12/2001 11:51:02 AM PDT by MA~Bear
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To: cuz_it_aint_their_money
Heavy Sigh...

Click away, grasshopper.

11 posted on 10/12/2001 11:51:10 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty
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Everybody knows it was Ted Nugent.
12 posted on 10/12/2001 11:51:20 AM PDT by DainBramage
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Somewhere, Lt. General Lewis B. (Chesty) Puller is laughing his "Marine Green" ass off!!
13 posted on 10/12/2001 11:51:50 AM PDT by Nitro
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This ia a Hoax and never happened. Go find it on the Urban Legends web site...
14 posted on 10/12/2001 11:52:15 AM PDT by Georgia_JimD
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To: Colt .45
This would be extra funny if it were true, but it's not. However, it's still good for a chuckle.
15 posted on 10/12/2001 11:52:50 AM PDT by oldvike
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16 posted on 10/12/2001 11:53:29 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Jack Wilson
Heres a few more:

First Lieutenant Clifton B. Cates, USMC, 96th Co., Soissons, 19 July 1918

I have only two out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold.

(Attributed to several World War I Marine Corps officers, Belleau Wood, June 1918

Retreat Hell! We've just got here!

LIEUTENANT GENERAL LEWIS B. PULLER, USMC

All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time

17 posted on 10/12/2001 11:54:59 AM PDT by mdittmar
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18 posted on 10/12/2001 11:56:17 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: DainBramage
No, it wasn't. It was George Carlin.
19 posted on 10/12/2001 11:56:58 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty
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Very funny joke...but we all know that it never happened. Semper Fi, Mike
20 posted on 10/12/2001 12:01:19 PM PDT by HEFFERNAN2
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