Sgt. Mom
2008-07-20 15:46:11
Good lord, do I get any credit for writing about this four years ago!
Here, at the Daily Brief (www.ncobrief.com), from July, 2004 -
http://www.ncobrief.com/index.php/archives/memo-john-wayne-is-dead-and-arnie-has-a-day-job/
And yeah, Hollywood has conducted themselves since I wrote this ‘in the manner that we have come to expect from them.’
Which phrase is supposedly the one used by old-line military commanders in writing next-of-kin letters about personnel who managed to get themselves killed in ususually stupid ways. Seems fitting, in this context, actually.
