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@Maj. Bill Martin
Ok,so you weren't combat arms.
Just responding to clear this up.
Yes, I was. Combat action ribbon, purple heart from a minor shrapnel round from some Iraqi artillery. Not going in to medals.
This wasn't about DeSantis, and it certainly wasn't about me. It's about the funerals I've been to of young Marines who were neither combat arms nor truck drivers, killed in the sandbox by IED, in ambushes, and by rocket/mortal artillery fire. You know -- the kind of servicemembers that were just taking it easy, like they were just sitting at home, that you crapped on. I lack the words to express the contempt I feel for someone who weighs, measures, and diminishes the deaths of those killed serving their country somehow not being as good or as honorable. Just "murders", not combat deaths. Right?
Remind me to never, ever offer to buy you a beer.
Please stop pinging me, also.