US Army official calls US Marines “extremists” (fwd)

January 2nd, 2009

From Thu Nov 13 22:41:23 1997
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>From: “Louis R. Coatney”
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>Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 17:24:13 -0800
>From: Mike Potter
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>Army official apologizes for calling Marines “extremists”
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>Copyright =A9 1997 Nando.net
>Copyright =A9 1997 The Associated Press
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>… so I can’t reproduce it.
>
> I watched the movie “The Rock,” … with Nicholas Cage, Sean
>Connery. The villain was … of course … an embittered Marine
>VN vet officer.
>
> In the recent Robert Redford/Michelle Pfeiffer film “Up Close
>and Personal” Redford dies at the end a hero’s death … the victim
>of an ambush … after concern that the “South Command” is trying to
>prevent/disrupt the handover of the Panama Canal.
>
> In a recent READER’S DIGEST, there is a cartoon … a guy comes
>home in his uniform carrying 1 bag of groceries.
>
> His wife says, “I *told* you not to go to the supermarket
>wearing your uniform!”
>
> … and people seem to resent me using my veteran’s preference,
>when I go in for job interviews.
>
> Nice people.
>
>Lou
> Coatney, mslrc@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
> www.wiu.edu/users/mslrc/

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