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21st February 07, 03:35 PM
#1
It's Ron's Fault
Gents:
Well, I done stoods all I can stands, and I can't stands no more! Riverkilt has been swishing about talking up his leatherneck tartan, and I've been thinking of how much my life was changed since I stood on the famous yellow footprints at USMCRD-San Diego . . .
So I took the plunge. (Hey, Marines are amphibians, right? Errr, amphibious, anyway.)
Just got done ordering a five yarder from Rocky, thirteen ounce USMC/Leatherneck tartan. A couple of months, and I'll be "dancing with them what brung me."
I tried to get away from Rocky. I thought, "Yeah, well, I've got the Farquharson casual from him, and the blue Ramsay semi-trad, that ought to be enough."
Oh, but no! Hey, I couldn't have a Army tartan semi-trad and no leatherneck, right? I mean, that just wouldn't be right, given my service history.
So now I wait. He he!
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21st February 07, 06:19 PM
#2
Welcome aboard the leatherneck train!
"A veteran, whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve, is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America", for an amount of "up to and including my life." That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it." anon
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21st February 07, 07:41 PM
#3
Iwill soon have my own Leatherneck. Then the Fraser Red.
I don't care if you battled the enemies of Freedom or if you battled boredom, If you Served you Deserve our Respect and Gratitude!
Copula eame se non posit acceptar jocularum
Calix Meus Inebrians
Notio bonum, visa olum.
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21st February 07, 08:39 PM
#4
Semper Fi! Enjoy the pride.
What yellow foot prints...?? I don't see no footprints Sarge...
KABOOM!!
Oh...there they are...TEN HUT!
Hoping my Leatherneck traditional hand sewn is somewhere in the line...
Ron
Ol' Macdonald himself, a proud son of Skye and Cape Breton Island
Lifetime Member Scottish Tartans Authority, Owner Freelanders #4 & 5
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"I'll have a kilt please, a nice hand sewn tartan, 16 ounce Strome. Oh, and a sporran on the side, with a strap please."
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21st February 07, 08:51 PM
#5
I don't know anything about the yellow footprints. But, I assume it's the same as the "lines" we wingnuts landed on in San Anton'
“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.” -C.S. Lewis
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22nd February 07, 05:08 AM
#6
The yellow footprints? Well, they're not quite the yellow brick road, but they do start you on a long and interesting journey. Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if, instead of joining the Corps, I'd have just taken the bar and started working as a lawyer. -Shudder- I wouldn't speak Russian, I would never have been to Kazakhstan or Mongolia, never have met the wife, never have done, actually, a lot of neat and interesting things. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. Also, this will be my first handmade wool tartan kilt!
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