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By: buddy larsen

buddy larsen — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:38:43 +0000

H/157; just saw this, at Maggie’s Farm –bet your son would get a kick out of it!

http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/12847-Marine-Corps-Birthday.html

By: Marie Claude

Marie Claude — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:38:33 +0000

97 Twobefour,

during my high school years, we had a “cine-club” where most of the “big” russian films were shown. I particularly remember “The cranes are flying”, the images were impressing, especially the ones when the russian soldier was dying in a wood, I still see the trees above his head, circling and vanishing at the very moment of his death.

Also Japanese movies of Kurosawa were a great deal, don’t remember we had american films, that we could see on commercial screens elsewere

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cranes_Are_Flying

By: HEPT

HEPT — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:15:01 +0000

Happy Birthday Marines and for one Marine in particular, son, wish your were home but you are there in afstan, so check six and keep that head on a swivel.
Come home soon.
Dad

By: Charles

Charles — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:06:36 +0000

110. Bob Murphy:

105. Charles
it has been taken to imply that you’ll never entirely understand yourself, since your mind, like any other closed system, can only be sure of what it knows about itself by relying on what it knows about itself.”
No wonder so many Asians think we are fools.
Slaves to chatter mind.
It would pay to keep a sense of humour about all that.
////////
in a word.

By: buddy larsen

buddy larsen — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:42:12 +0000

i don’t believe i’ve ever heard –hell i can’t even imagine hearing –any better advice than that. not for marble or the walls of Delphi, but folded in a mental note and kept in mind.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:24:40 +0000

Dennis Miller had a caller whose dad fought at Guadalcanal.

Said he left home @ 210 lbs and came back at 129.
Had health and skin problems for life.

Son is 71, says he still remembers what his dad said when he was getting ready to ship off for Vietnam.

Although he never talked about Guadalcanal, when the son asked his advice, his dad said:
“Son, you don’t have to stand tall,
but you gotta stand.“

By: buddy larsen

buddy larsen — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:19:54 +0000

Sgt. MacKenzie

Not the right tone for a birthday remembrance for the Marine Corp, nor for the Fall of the Wall, but it’s all in there. Rick Rescorla too –this song was used on the sound track of “We Were Soldiers” about the Battle of the Ia Drang.

By: JG27 AD

JG27 AD — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:04:25 +0000

When I was just a young’un I really enjoyed an old Wallace Beery film called “Salute to the Marines”. Alas I have not seen nor heard of it since the ’60s.

Netflixed “The Blue Max” last night. I think that Jerry Goldsmith’s score to that film is one of the best in cinema.

By: buddy larsen

buddy larsen — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:59:56 +0000

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/scotland-the-brave-bagpipes/3798683607

By: E. Nigma

E. Nigma — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:23:01 +0000

I think that I have read that Mr. Rescorla was singing during the evacuation of the South Tower on his Last Day. I could imagine him singing “Men of Harlech” through his megaphone, urging people down the stairs. He was that kind of man, I think.

Another war movie that I liked was “In Harm’s Way”, a movie about a “gut bustin’, mother lovin’ Navy war!”, to quote Kirk Douglas.

Fictional, of course, but an amalgamation of several campaigns in the Southwest Pacific, and it sort of felt “real”.
There’s a character who briefly appears, playing the Navy meteorologist in the movie, that bears a strong resemblance to my high school chemistry teacher who was also a Navy meteorologist in WWII. He retired in 1955 as a full Commander and chief meteorologist of the 7th Fleet. He was also present at a bunch of atmospheric nuke tests in the Pacific in the early ’50.