I’m sure after a few years of this you all know the drill. Marine Corps Birthday/Anniversary followed by…Veteran’s Day. As is usual, we have a Photopost today. But first, a little something to think about when you’re cheering at a parade or listening to some guy with more stars on his shoulders than brains under his cap give a speech: We are, legally and technically, a secular nation. We have, codified in our laws, procedures that prohibit the favoring of any religion. As such, we shouldn’t have any religious holidays be national holidays. But consider this…
December 25th, an arbitrary day picked to celebrate the birth of Christ by ancient Romans. There will be no mail sent or received that day.
November 11th, a symbolic day chosen to mourn those lost during the seminal tragedy of the last century, WWI, and a celebration of our soldiers and sailors who served nobly in the armed services. Mail will be picked up and delivered on this day.
Consider that, on Christmas a soldier can’t get his paycheck mailed to him. But he can on Veteran’s day. And how many of you are taking a day off to celebrate the soldiers who protect you from evil, as compared to how many of you will be taking Christmas day off to celebrate a fat man putting overpriced knick-knacks under an aluminum tree?
Priorities. We, as a nation, need to try to get some.
So without further ado…funny stuff:
What? Gotta have somethin’ to do to keep yourself occupied on those long flights.
This is what it would look like if there were any Buddhist Theocracies in the world.
I…have no idea what I’m doing.
Who likes Short Shorts? The ladies watching the PT group like Short Shorts! Ooh-Rah!
I believe those mustaches violate the uniform code.
Too much time was spent on the details of that glorious penis.
“All I know is it ends in ‘-stan’.” “Oh, yeah, that sounds repressed as shit, let’s liberate the hell out of it!”
Sadly, this still wouldn’t be the weirdest story I’ve heard from Marines.
~RCS
And like I said…USMC birthday…
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
You kill anything that stands against the Red, White, and Blue!
Happy Birthday to you!
Richard C. Shaffer 