Posted on 01/01/2013 11:46:53 AM PST by T.O.K.
Edited on 01/01/2013 12:54:57 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
The following letter, written by U.S. Marine Joshua Boston and headlined “No ma’am.,” was posted in the CNN iReport on Dec. 27 with the included note from the producer and photo. It has struck a nerve with many and is being circulated around social media venues like Twitter and Facebook.
Senator Dianne Feinstein,
I will not register my weapons should this bill be passed, as I do not believe it is the government’s right to know what I own. Nor do I think it prudent to tell you what I own so that it may be taken from me by a group of people who enjoy armed protection yet decry me having the same a crime. You ma’am have overstepped a line that is not your domain. I am a Marine Corps Veteran of 8 years, and I will not have some woman who proclaims the evil of an inanimate object, yet carries one, tell me I may not have one.
I am not your subject. I am the man who keeps you free. I am not your servant. I am the person whom you serve. I am not your peasant. I am the flesh and blood of America.
I am the man who fought for my country. I am the man who learned. I am an American. You will not tell me that I must register my semi-automatic AR-15 because of the actions of some evil man.
I will not be disarmed to suit the fear that has been established by the media and your misinformation campaign against the American public.
We, the people, deserve better than you.
Respectfully Submitted,
Joshua Boston
Cpl, United States Marine Corps
2004-2012
I think his repeating “I am the man who” several times indicates a point of view. He is not saying I am the soldier who, I am the person who. Doesn’t he know that women serve and risk their lives in the service too.
Seconded.
Thanks, PTSD was not recognized 50 years ago, early in my marriage. I detect a lot of suppressed anger in this Marine. I feel so sad about all the marriages that are going to be damaged or destroyed by insufficient recognition of the PTSD, and anger issues engendered by warfare.
I’m not sure why you hate to break it to me, but I like being a woman, men like me being a woman, but I don’t mind being confused with being a guy; and, unfortunately, I am middle-aged.
Love your nest of kittens, Russian Blues?? I had one once. Plan to check out your Vanity collection when I have time.
His complete comment was posted just a few above mine.
Bigger and more detailed pre-ban, pre-confiscation LISTS. For those who will prove to be "troublesome." Folks, like, ummm you know: US.
Interesting tidbit was brought to my attention. More people in this country die from the failure of medical personnel to wash their hands than die from gun violence.
I don’t have a chip on my shoulder, but I am afraid that he does, and that if he gets/is married it will damage his life.
I would love to see this messaged hacked into every and any large screen message device from highway billboards to football and NASCAR jumbotrons.
Sometimes Gun Control is necessary.
One night my husband stayed out late at the local bar. He was mugged by two guys on the way home. He was also drunk. After yelling to me about what had happened, he ran out into the middle of a city street at 3 am and screamed, “You want war, I’ll give you war!!” I quickly took his pistol out of the locked storage and hid it where he could not find it. Then I called his best friend to come over and talk him down before some innocent person got hurt. As I said Gun Control has its place.
...”God bless this Marine. Unfortunately for him, one call from the White Hut and all his VA benefits will disappear down the memory hole.”...
I believe that this Marine believes that saving freedom is more valuable than anything this soon to be communist government can offer him.
...”God bless this Marine. Unfortunately for him, one call from the White Hut and all his VA benefits will disappear down the memory hole.”...
I believe that this Marine believes that saving freedom is more valuable than anything this soon to be communist government can offer him.
The only two reasons I can come up with are that his survivor guilt/PTSD made him feel he had no right to a happy life so he tried to ruin our marriage; or that as I have read, some soldiers are angry at women for never having to experience what they have had to.
He has been dead now for 7 years, and I have been in a wonderful relationship for the past 6 years.
Actually we cooked together quite well. He would do the roast or the turkey and I would do the salad, mashed potatoes, desert, home made cranberry sauce etc.
Part of our problem was that as the oldest child by 8 years, my father treated me like a boy and had me helping repair the car outdoors in the middle of winter in NJ at the age of 5.
At the age of 5 his mother slapped him silly for an hour because his fingers were too awkward to tie his shoelaces. Subsequently both his parents used to say, “If you’d been a girl we would have called you Grace.” So he lacked both confidence and skills. I often tried to be diplomatic, but when he was about to ruin building materials I had paid for I was not about to let it happen.
He did respect my nerve. One night he phoned and said he had been at a meeting where threats had been made. He asked me to sit in the dark with a pistol in my lap at the window viewing the front door while he came home, which I did.
My brother is an architect and I spent my 14th summer hammering wire nails through masonite at one inch intervals into the studs of a trailer my father was building from plans in a Popular Mechanic. Your comment indicates an unfortunate male attitude that women can’t do these things.
Several years ago I drew plans for a porch and a deck above it, went to permits, was told it needed to support 50 lbs per square foot, not 25 lbs. I contacted an engineer, had him advise me where I should add additional strength, revised the drawings, got the permits and built it with some help from a kid I hired to help lift the heavier 2 x 8s. Oh, and I was 70 at the time.
Actually it was in the mid 70s when he was about 45. Maybe it was 84 Lumber, I don’t remember. He developed Alzheimers in his mid 60s.
Actually he was not very willing, I had to do most of it while he went off to play with his boat.
I just wanted to check and make sure you were all good! You responded to me, and then responded to me again about an hour and a half later differently.
You sound like a very strong and capable woman and I'm mostly sure you were kind of... adding to the story? Sharing different details?
But if you didn't remember your first answer and then you answered again, you should immediately let someone know.
Feel free to call me an idiot for checking. It won't hurt my feelings. :p
bttt
I think there are a lot of Americans who share your sentiment.
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