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I have avoided getting into this discussion up to now because I have
always considered it to be in poor taste to slur fellow services. This
delicacy has, apparently, not permeated all branches.
Every winter, we are blessed with tributes to the noble marine
"advancing in another direction" from some reservoir while us West Coast
boys either rode greyhounds home from Kunu Ri or just fell to pieces. In
spite of our collapse, we were back in the line in less than a month,
first stemming the Chinese advance and then handing the war over to the
politicians, and in the meantime the marines were convalescing on rear
area security duty. The hardest blow of all was when I went to see
"Heartbreak Ridge" only to find out it was a marine epic, even though
the closest marines to Heartbreak were in the Pusan PX.
I have to be careful what I say because my grandson is going into the
marines, but since an army squad did not include a photographer, someone
occasionally has to raise a voice lest the word go out that we don't
really need an army since the marines can handle it all.
Inspire 28
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