For Veterans Day - the Marlboro Marine revisited

[proud2BlibKansan]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/marlboromarine/

[TomInTib]

1. Whoa...

I can't even tell you...

For I have never seen that.

Hell, that should be shown as a PSA on the teevee.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Yes it should

I emailed it out to almost everyone on my list.

[Bigmack]

2. And for nothing....

All that death... all that suffering... lives ruined.... and FOR NOTHING!

There's going to be thousands like him.

I've got the Veteran's Day blues real bad. This fucking country has just got to stop making so goddam many veterans!

"I believe that if we had and would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-soaked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own -- and if unfortunately their revolution must be of the violent type because the "haves" refuse to share with the "have-nots" by any peaceful method, at least what they get will be their own, and not the American style, which they don't want and above all don't want crammed down their throats by Americans."
General David M. Shoup, May 14, 1966
Commandant of the Marine Corps 1960-63,
and winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor

[windbreeze]

3. ohhhhh....this brings back so many memories...

the year was 1970...he had returned, and he looked the same on the outside...but no one told us he was broken on the inside...

I surely hope that Blake and his wife stick it out...I knew, our people would return like this, I kept saying unless we have been where they were, we cannot, and we will never understand....they may look like your loved one when they return...but they are forever changed inside...they are not the same person you waved good-bye too...sad, so sad...made me cry...I wish them the best of luck...wb