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   > CP wrote --   
   >> > I made some remark about our softening the beaches for them so they can   
   > just stroll ashore and go for walks along the beach.   
   >>    
   >> Always fun to tweak the noses of friendly Marines, like:   
   > We do have fun teasing each other at times.   
   > Thought Dickie usually starts it.  :)   
   >> Q: Why does each USNavy ship have one Marine on board? A: A sheep would be   
   > too obvious.   
   > LOL   
   > Never heard that one before.   
   >> Finally one comes crawling back to tell his sergeant, "It's a trap, sir --   
   > there're two of them!"   
      
   Feel free to use either in your future interactions with Marines -- friendly,    
   pompous, or otherwise -- I always tell them as a couplet, in  the order to   
   suit which type I'm talking with.   
      
   I know you're going to have a certain amount of instant respect for any US    
   troop of any section, being a veteran yourself, you understabd, deeply, how   
   one commits one's time & life to the defense of all.   
      
   Oi'vce not had that privilege so I learn from others I talk with throughout   
   my  travels. I seem to met a lot of US Marines, even though I'm up here in   
   Canada.   
      
   As well as the usual mixed bag of those who were 'posted up here' for their    
   Viet Nam call-up.   
      
   I talk to them without judgement & generally respect their choice, unless it    
   wasa pure cowardice, then not as much -- Most , though, had strongly held    
   beliefs & principles re the draft &/or the US being in Viet Nam, at whatever    
   point in the war. (My dictionaries all call it a war, even if your Congress    
   didn't declare war, or was that for Korea they didn't?)   
      
   I've researched the event & the points that led to the US jumping in & I'm   
   not  seeing the point where it was warranted by US citizens; interests,   
   besides a  handful of billionaire Big Steel, & the like, corporations.   
      
   This isn't a direct memory for me, as I wasa born near as it was just   
   finishing up. . .   
      
   For all people held against Nixon(much warranted, agreed), he was the one who    
   actually ended that era, & brought the American soldiers home.   
      
   No heroism, per se -- he was permitted to, whereas JFK was not. :(   
      
      
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