I recently received an email from a Marine Corps buddy that looked like this: FW: Fallen Marine Vet RIP R. Lee Ermey, 1944-2010 It’s with a heavy heart that I find myself writing this about someone I’ve admired for many years. Ever since “Full Metal Jacket”, R. Lee Ermey emboded the image of a hard-ass […]
Posts Tagged ‘USMC’
Abusing the Right to Free Speech
March 30th, 2010 Cheryl
Today’s Headline: Fallen Marine’s Father’s Legal Battle Albert Snyder sued protesters at his son’s funeral and won; now the judgment was been thrown out and he’s ordered to pay protester’s legal fees. Watch this video from Fox News and tell me, when does your right to Free Speech begin to impede on my rights to […]
The Kiss
December 19th, 2009 Cheryl
We had a really nice day today visiting San Diego, CA. We started with a two hour drive from El Centro through some interesting terrain on Interstate 8. As many times as Chuck and I (before we met, and then together) drove back and forth between our home base in California and my family in […]
MCRD San Diego 50 years later
We drove to MCRD yesterday from El Centro, where we are staying. 50 years ago when I went through the main gate I thought I went to Hell, but I was in Marine Corps Boot Camp. Only a few minutes after arriving I was standing on yellow foot prints painted on the deck. The next […]