Friday, June 09, 2006
USMC
I heard a pretty bizarre news story on the way to work today. It was about some idiot and his web site and US Marines. It seems there's this web site up that is disrespectful to the US Military. I'd be pretty surprised if it was only one - or even only a dozen, but the news story made this one sound pretty unique. Any way, they had a sound bit from some Marine's mom (tearful naturally) that her poor baby, a US Marine and many in his unit, were totally demoralized because of this Web site. It went on to say that she was trying to get her senator, congressman, etal to make them take it down.
Well, naturally, I have two big problems with this story. First, taking down the web site. I haven't seen it and didn't get the URL associated with it. It probably wouldn't be too hard to google "disrespectful to the Military" and find it. Why should I boost his bandwidth report? Why should I advertise his site on this blog. OK - I'm a little curious and will probably try to find it later. It just brings up that cliche about assholes and opinions - everybody's got one and in this case the site's owner seems to be much more one than the having a legitimate other.
The second problem is the marine. If he and his unit is completely demoralized by one Web site, he is really-really in the wrong line of business and needs to get out and go to work for Macdonalds or Wendy's. And I really feel sorry for any other unit that is going to have to fight alongside of (much more likely in front off) this group of sorry marines. And nope, I'm obviously not a Marine -- however, I have spent 22 years in the military.
