Thanks, everyone, for the encouragement. The press conference went well though I haven’t seen a video of it. Gunny Ermey is a real hoot. He’s a Marine and a straightforward guy, no doubt about it. Congressman Walter Jones is a heck of nice guy as well.
Interestingly, at the get-together at a local watering hole afterwards, I bumped in to a guy who was a platoon-mate of my son’s about 6 years back! He spotted me - it’s sometimes a good thing to be a small, skinny, scruffy guy with a beard. :)
Thanks for the update Pop. What a good story. Running into that platoon-mate of your son’s must have been the capper on the whole day. Wonderful.
Here’s to winning the battle.:)
“For over 221 years our Corps has done two things for this great Nation. We make Marines, and we win battles.”
~Gen. Charles C. Krulak, USMC (CMC); 5 May 1997