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    Wink Military vs Civilian Friends

    CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Get upset if you're too busy to talk to them for a week.
    MILITARY FRIENDS: Are glad to see you after years, and will happily carry
    on thesame conversation you were having last time you met.

    CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Never ask for food.
    MILITARY FRIENDS: Are the reason you have no food.

    CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Call your parents Mr. And Mrs.
    MILITARY FRIENDS: Call your parents mom and dad.

    CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Bail you out of jail and tell you what you did was wrong.
    MILITARY FRIENDS: Would be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...we screwed
    up...but man, that was fun!"

    CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Have never seen you cry.
    MILITARY FRIENDS: Cry with you.

    CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Borrow your stuff for a few days then give it back.
    MILITARY FRIENDS: Keep your stuff so long they forget it's yours.

    CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Know a few things about you.
    MILITARY FRIENDS: Could write a book with direct quotes from you.

    CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will leave you behind if that's what the crowd is doing.
    MILITARY FRIENDS: Will kick the whole crowd's ass that left you behind.

    CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Would knock on your door.
    MILITARY FRIENDS: Walk right in and say, "I'm home!"

    CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Are for a while.
    MILITARY FRIENDS: Are for life.

    CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Have shared a few experiences...
    MILITARY FRIENDS: Have shared a lifetime of experiences no Civilian could
    ever dream of...

    CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will take your drink away when they think you've had
    enough.
    MILITARY FRIENDS: Will look at you stumbling all over the place and say,
    "You better drink the rest of that, you know we don't waste...that's
    alcohol abuse!!" Then carry you home safely and put you to bed...

    CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will talk crap to the person who talks crap about you.
    MILITARY FRIENDS: Will kick the crap out of the person who talks crap about
    you.


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    Phantom Blooper
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    All of my childhood and school friends are no longer in my life. My 30 year reunion was a few years ago and I didn't attend and will not God willing attend the 40th or 50th.

    However brothers I had in the Marine Corps are brothers for life. i.e.Attended a 20 year reunion for the Beirut BLT bombing and my men that attended and my peers picked up our life as it was yesterday.

    NOTHING FINER mom!




    St. Crispen's Day Speech
    William Shakespeare, 1599


    Enter the KING


    WESTMORELAND. O that we now had here
    But one ten thousand of those men in England
    That do no work to-day!

    KING. What's he that wishes so?
    My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin;
    If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
    To do our country loss; and if to live,
    The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
    God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
    By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
    Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
    It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
    Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
    But if it be a sin to covet honour,
    I am the most offending soul alive.
    No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
    God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour
    As one man more methinks would share from me
    For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
    Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
    That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
    Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
    And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
    We would not die in that man's company
    That fears his fellowship to die with us.
    This day is call'd the feast of Crispian.
    He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
    Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd,
    And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
    He that shall live this day, and see old age,
    Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
    And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.'
    Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
    And say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.'
    Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
    But he'll remember, with advantages,
    What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
    Familiar in his mouth as household words-
    Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
    Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-
    Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.
    This story shall the good man teach his son;
    And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
    From this day to the ending of the world,
    But we in it shall be remembered-
    We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
    For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
    Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
    This day shall gentle his condition;
    And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
    Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
    And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
    That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.




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    Marine friends

    Civilian friends will never understand what it's like to be under fire together, and to live through it, or the words Semper Fidelis mean. I live in a town with only a few marines, but that in it's self is good enough. Have you ever noticed that when you are someplace in public, that Marines tend to gravitate to each other?


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