I’m posting this here primarily so I can post the pictures on Truth Before Dishonor without eating up too much of Mr Hitchcock’s bandwidth! More pictures after the fold.
Archive of posts filed under the United States Marine Corps category.
A Marine
This was a very important story to me, on the front page of The Philadelphia Inquirer: From mourner to Marine By Tom Infield, Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer MARINE CORPS AIR STATION NEW RIVER, N.C. – When her Marine boyfriend died in a helicopter crash off the Horn of Africa in 2006, Lesley Reed was lost. [...]
Which Military Branch Has Toughest Boot Camp?
And the award goes to…
The Jim Thorpe Memorial Day Parade
I tried to persuade SPC Pico and PFC Pico that they should arise, put on their ACUs, and march in the Jim Thorpe Memorial Day parade; it didn’t work. Nor was I surprised. The parade passes right in front of our house, and, as always, is pretty small. Click on any picture to embiggen.
Westboro Cult vs Civilization
Thanks, Jim Hoft. A couple of days before, one of them (Westboro protestors) ran his mouth at a Brandon gas station and got his arse waxed. Police were called and the beaten man could not give much of a description of who beat him. When they canvassed the station and spoke to the large crowd [...]
Colman McCarthy and ROTC on campuses
From Phineas on his site and at Sister Toldjah: Brain-dead moral equivalence Posted by: Phineas on December 30, 2010 at 3:38 pm Colman McCarthy at the Washington Post: To oppose ROTC, as I have since my college days in the 1960s, when my school enticed too many of my classmates into joining, is not to [...]
December 7, 1941 – A Day That Will Live in Infamy
Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor Wonder if it’s still taught in schools? Then I wonder who the history books will label the aggressor?