WALMART SENIOR GREETER
     Charley, a new retiree-greeter at Wal-Mart, just couldn't seem to get to work on time. 
     Every day he was 5, 10, 15 minutes late. But he was a good worker, really tidy, clean-shaven, sharp minded and a real credit to the company and obviously demonstrating their "Older Person Friendly" policies. 
     One day the boss called him into the office for a talk. "Charley, I have to tell you, I like your work ethic, you do a bang up job, but your being late so often is quite bothersome."
     "Yes, I know boss, and I am working on it."
     ''Well good, you are a team player. That's what I like to hear. It's odd though you're coming in late. I know you're retired from the Armed Forces. What did they say if you came in late there?"
     ''They said, "Good morning, General, can I get you coffee, sir?'


Hell, these are
Marines. Men like them held
Guadalcanal and took Iwo Jima.

Bagdad ain't shit.
?Marine Major
General
John F. Kelly

"The raising of that flag on
Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next five hundred years."
James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy; 23 February 1945
(the flag-raising on Iwo Jima had been immortalized in a photograph by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal)

"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those
who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the
wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell."
William Tecumseh Sherman