(THIS IS MEANT AS AN ADDENDUM TO MY POST: "USMC: Swimming With Sharks! ")
I met up with a friend, Tom, at Moonbucks Coffee Palace the other morning. He's a former Marine also; younger, more solidly employed, and far more gung ho than me. I told him my story about meeting up with the upitty former Marine at the supermarket; and then he related a story similiar to mine about an experience he had with a Marine motorcycle group member in Sacramento . He totally understood my indignance and he understood where I was coming from. I said to him that I know I am out of touch with what is going on for new Marines and that I had the notion that maybe they were becoming elietists and that I didn't really know what they were thinking about? His response was, "Killing...." He paused for a moment as on that note as my eyes locked in on his in exclamation. What! He continued on by saying he had observed in the fellows newly back was that killing was a subject they talked about extensively. #
AN UNSUNG HERO:
- Kamaroh
- Naturalist by devotion, humorist by genetics, hero by default; Kamaroh is a Republican, a Presbyterian, a Polio surviver, a former US Marine, & Great Plains Badger. Earned an MA in English from SFSU. Student & friend of novelist Kay Boyle. His blog is a no profanity zone. There is little edgey emotionalism if he avoids thinking about his children. Kamaroh is a masculinist, places value on fraternity & believes living stag is a responsible and manly option. Particularly apreciative of the charm of Asian females, he discovered in 1999 he is able to love one small lady to the extreme that thinking about her can make his nose bleed. From boyhood forward, he values having male friends & male role models; though this blog is an extention of that belief; it is all welcome. Though containing male posturing, biased poetry, shakey facts, & faulted bachelor housekeeping, this blog's intent is to be good for your health & contains no spanky material. Pardon me if I am speaking too loudly because even with the high tech ... hearing aids the Veterans Administration provides to me, I do not have normal hearing.
