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Offline Goth

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« on: February 14, 2003, 07:33:05 AM »
Can't vouch for the validity of this, and dunno if it has been posted here prior, but...now for your viewing pleasure I present:




An actual letter home from a marine with the multinational force in Bosnia:

 Dear Dad,

A funny thing happened to me yesterday at Camp Bondsteel (Bosnia):  
  A French army officer walked up to me in the PX, and told me he thought we (Americans) were a bunch of cowboys and were going to provoke a war in Iraq. He said if such a thing happens, we wouldn't be able to count on the support of France. I told him that it didn't surprise me.
  Since we had come to France's rescue in World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and the Cold War, their ingratitude and jealousy was due to surface [again] at some point in the near future anyway. I also told him that is why France is a third-rate military power with a socialist economy and a bunch of pansies for soldiers.
  I additionally told him that America, being a nation of deeds and action, not words, would do whatever it had to do, and France's support, if it ever came, was only for show anyway. Just like in ALL NATO exercises, the US would shoulder 85% of the burden, and provide 85% of the support, as evidenced by the fact that this French officer was shopping in the American PX, and not the other way around.
  He began to get belligerent at that point, and I told him if he would like to, I would meet him outside in front of the Burger King and whip his bellybutton in front of the entire multinational Brigade East, thus demonstrating that even the smallest American had more fight in him than the average Frenchman. He called me a barbarian cowboy and walked away in a huff. With friends like these, who needs enemies? Dad, tell Mom I love her, Your loving daughter,

Mary Beth Johnson

 LtCol., USMC

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« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2003, 07:36:29 AM »
The Internet is a wonderful thing.

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« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2003, 07:52:26 AM »
Pathetic crap

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« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2003, 07:56:09 AM »
viral memetic propaganda?

or should that be emetic?

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« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2003, 08:19:25 AM »
Its not real guys, I posted this a few days ago...damn the fishing was good though!

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« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2003, 08:27:35 AM »
Hehe...shoulda known it was posted prior....but, this has been going around work for the past couple weeks. You know how us military peeps are...we love a good story.

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« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2003, 08:29:24 AM »
...especially when it isn't true.

Do you still have your mother read to you at night ? :)