Re: is this. for.. real..? the soldier and the sig
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BC0311 said:
What a tempest in a toilet this whole thread has been.
Seems like the ones that whine and stamp their feet in indignation most loudly have never even been in the US Military, much less fought in combat.
I stand with Lance Corporal Boudreaux and fart in the general direction of all the Arabs and pantywaist Americans who excoriate him.
He went there and fought and came back and did it in the place of many millions of Americans who haven't earned the right to kiss his ***.
Sgt. B.C. Lynn
USMC 1969-72
1st Marine Division-RVN
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Kudos Sgt. Lynn, from the son of a retired Gunnery Sgt. (1950-1970).
i believe that IF the pic were true, it would be in bad taste, and the guy should have to scrub a bathroom or something. however, i also believe that the amount of media play it has received is amazing.
this strikes me as incredibly imbalanced: a soldier ALLEGEDLY pulls a rude prank, and is scrutinized to the nth degree. people act as if the soldier has just murdered 100 pregnant women.
yet a murderer, torturer, rapist etc gets a 25 second sound bite on the news...and people screaming for leniency, and prisoner rights.
like i stated above: amazing.
and, if the man in the pic is (was?) found innocent, nobody will retract the accusation--the man will have to live with the stain of the accused.
IMO, (if faked) the pic was a deliberate smear against the American military by someone that dislikes America/Bush/the military/the war.
that person does not deserve the protection afforded by our great military, nor the citizenship of this great country.
Bob