Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hey, I was just adding to the Full Metal Jacket conversation. Now, if Rumsfeld, Cheney, or Bush had been marines, then we might have a fistfight on our hands. ;-) -- Jeffery ---- Walt Johnson <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote: > You must realize more innocents are killed by draft dodgers and ex-navy > rejects than by former Marines. We just have a bad reputation because > we know about yardage, windage, etc. Whitman, btw, had a medical problem > so he has to be excused. Hells bells, the NYPD shoot more unarmed black > youths in a year than all the ex military combined. > > Jeffery Smith wrote: > > >He also brought up Charles Whitman, the UT sniper who killed a bunch of > >people in the 60's (also an ex-marine). > >-- > >Jeffery > > > >---- Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin@optonline.net> wrote: > > > > > >>On Oct 13, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Walt wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>>Yes, I was in the Marines when that happened. If Jesus showed up > >>>>at my > >>>>font door and said "Walt, trust me, Oswald did it alone" I'd have to > >>>>call him a liar. > >>>> > >>>> > >>What was that line from "Full Metal Jacket"? I paraphrase here > >>because my memory is a bit fuzzy but I recall the marine rifle > >>instructor informing his trainees that: > >> > >>"Lee Harvey Oswald got off two shots in a second and a half and hit > >>President Kennedy at a distance of two hundred yards. AND HE WAS A > >>MARINE!" > >> > >>Larry Z > >> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Leica Users Group. > >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > >> > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Leica Users Group. > >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information