An utterly disrecpectful cartoon of the Marine Corps emblem!!!
To all Marines and members,
Last week I was forwarded a political cartoon/sattire from my retired 1stSgt.
It is the most disrespectful and ignorant depiction of our emblem or Marine Corps that I have ever seen.
I urge all Marines and members to check it out and reply to the artist at this newspaper. Demand a public apology of some sort and expain your feelings about what it means to you, us, and our country. Maybe he will reply to you like he did to me, no apology, but he did thank me for my thoughts, WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT!!!!!
I am going to forward the cartoon to the O'Rielly factor this weekend and with some luck he will help put pressure on this cartoonist for an apology.
Here is the website: http://www.azcentral.com/php-bin/sli...s=66&go=1&go=1
The cartoonists e-mail address is: STEVEBENSON@ARIZONAREPUBLIC.COM
We all earned the title, now lets keep its honor clean!!!
SEMPER FI Marines, :flag: :usmc: :no:
CplWatson2dSRIG
my response to his picture
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<!-- type = text -->Its very clear to me that you have never served a day as a service member, especially as a US Marine. Your illustration of the eagle globe and anchor was a slap to the face of every Marine who has ever earned the title. You sit behind your desk, pecking away at your keyboard, sketching some worthless depiction, while young men and women sit in a fighting hole sketching out range cards. Its a damn good thing there are Marines, otherwise youd be working for a german newspaper drawing pictures of your hero, hitler. You wouldnt last a day in one of our or any servicemembers boots.
SSgt DW Spann
USMC