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!"

LOL!
Joe

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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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