Posted: 5/3/2003 8:50:03 AM EDT
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[url]http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/905132/posts[/url] A Letter in LEATHERNECK May 3, 2003 | vanity Posted on 05/03/2003 10:35 AM CDT by genefromjersey As an Old Corps Marine, I subscribe to LEATHERNECK the magazine of, for, and by the Marine Corps. In the May, 2003 issue, there was a letter to the editors that made my blood boil. I'm going to quote it, word for word. Marine Corps License Plates Are Politically Incorrect " I enlisted in the Marine Corps on March 13, 1950, and was later on a hill near Pamumjon, Korea,July 27, 1953,amd discharged in March 1954. I drive a school bus 140 miles a day for a company that specializes in transporting kids with special needs for several schools around Minneapolis. My employer told me I had to remove my Marine Corps sticker and license plate frame that says " Korea - 1 Marine Division " with eagle globe and anchor, because the transportation director for the school district saw them and found them to be offensive and/or inappropriate.I didn't want to cause a problem for my boss who is very patriotic, so I removed them. I am going to miss getting salutes from the police and state troopers." (signed) Former Cpl. Theodore C. King ..Minneapolis In the same issue of LEATHERNECK , I read about the deaths of 31 of my fellow Marines : 21 Killed in Action; 10 killed from action-related mis-adventures during Operation Iraqi Freedom. |
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I drive a school bus 140 miles a day for a company that specializes in transporting kids with special needs for several schools around Minneapolis. Minnesota is well known for their socialist tendencies and left wing agenda. I know. I grew up there but managed to escape in 1983. |