The Few, the Proud, ...
the killers of women and children: Probe Finds Marines Killed Unarmed Iraqi Civilians*.
My brother-in-law is a Marine and he's about as stand-up a guy as you'll ever meet. But I can't help but remember the group of guys who joined the Marines from my high-school. When they weren't fighting with baseball bats, their idea of a good time was to go to the county fair and stab pigs with concealed knives. I remember riding in the car of one of these fellows (I hung with a rough crowd) when we drove past an elderly nun in her habit. He shouted, "I'm an anarchist, you evil b----!" He meant to say "atheist," I believe. These guys came back from Iraq War I bragging about shooting surrendering Iraqi soldiers.
By no means do I intend to suggest all, or even a majority of, Marines fit the above description. But America has been turning out these kinds of young "men" for quite a while, and it seems they might often find their only legal outlet in the USMC.
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the killers of women and children: Probe Finds Marines Killed Unarmed Iraqi Civilians*.
My brother-in-law is a Marine and he's about as stand-up a guy as you'll ever meet. But I can't help but remember the group of guys who joined the Marines from my high-school. When they weren't fighting with baseball bats, their idea of a good time was to go to the county fair and stab pigs with concealed knives. I remember riding in the car of one of these fellows (I hung with a rough crowd) when we drove past an elderly nun in her habit. He shouted, "I'm an anarchist, you evil b----!" He meant to say "atheist," I believe. These guys came back from Iraq War I bragging about shooting surrendering Iraqi soldiers.
By no means do I intend to suggest all, or even a majority of, Marines fit the above description. But America has been turning out these kinds of young "men" for quite a while, and it seems they might often find their only legal outlet in the USMC.
*Use BugMeNot.com to bypass registration.
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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