Armistice Day

Moi ICI:

As well as Sesame Street, apparently today is the 234th anniversary of the US Marines. My Dad was a Marine, after Sunday dinner he'd sit back with a glass of Port and talk about going around the world and into the Mediterranean Sea on a ship. He served during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and one time I asked him if they were scared of the bomb and he said hell no, they were trained to fear the 16-inch Russian bayonet. A no-nonsense group for whom the phrase uncommon valor was a common virtue was coined. Xmastime mukluks doffed!  :)

It's nice that we pretend to care about soldiers; it'd be nicer if we were more cautious in how we used them.