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(3,574 posts)...with many Marines. I grew up in a tough neighborhood in a steel mill town where going into the Corps was a tradition going back to ww2. I myself signed up, during a layoff from the mill at age 19, but was called back to work during my 2 week waiting period. So I went back to work. The Marine recruiters walk around the toughest neighborhoods in dress blues, offering young men and women the chance to earn self respect and a way out of the ghetto scene and poverty. I had some friends I grew up with come back from Vietnam seriously fucked up and dangerous to those around them. I have held a friend in my arms with his arms of steel nearly crushing me, crying uncontrollably during a flashback. Some of these friends ended up dead, even though they survive the war, they never really came home. Guilt by association? I guess I'm guilty then.. But I am not ashamed.