Jarhead
War Hero
If we have an unofficial site, i guess it would be this one: www.grunt.com.
Some excerpts:
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
-JS Mill, 1863
Former Marines Make A Bride's Wish Come True
Larkann "Lynn" Stewart was 6 months old when her father, Lance Corporal David Stewart, was killed in an ambush in Vietnam on Jan. 13, 1968.
On her wedding day, Aug. 30, 1997, she wanted someone who served with her father to walk down the aisle to give her away.
The problem for the Memphis, Tenn. born bride was that she didn't know anyone who would fill the bill.
Her plight reached retired marine Fred Tucker, the Tennessee commissioner of veterans affairs. He took the problem as a personal challenge and issued press releases, made phone calls, conducted research and contacted several service-associated publications, including Leatherneck magazine.
Response was tremendous, according to Tucker, who verified that Steven Meyer, who lived in Modesto, Calif., near the site of the wedding, indeed served with Stewart.
Meyer said he was happy to be able to serve the daughter of a comrade in arms. At the request of the bride, Tucker, too, took the walk down the aisle.
He flew to Sacramento, Calif., wedding at his own expense.
Some excerpts:
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
-JS Mill, 1863
Former Marines Make A Bride's Wish Come True
Larkann "Lynn" Stewart was 6 months old when her father, Lance Corporal David Stewart, was killed in an ambush in Vietnam on Jan. 13, 1968.
On her wedding day, Aug. 30, 1997, she wanted someone who served with her father to walk down the aisle to give her away.
The problem for the Memphis, Tenn. born bride was that she didn't know anyone who would fill the bill.
Her plight reached retired marine Fred Tucker, the Tennessee commissioner of veterans affairs. He took the problem as a personal challenge and issued press releases, made phone calls, conducted research and contacted several service-associated publications, including Leatherneck magazine.
Response was tremendous, according to Tucker, who verified that Steven Meyer, who lived in Modesto, Calif., near the site of the wedding, indeed served with Stewart.
Meyer said he was happy to be able to serve the daughter of a comrade in arms. At the request of the bride, Tucker, too, took the walk down the aisle.
He flew to Sacramento, Calif., wedding at his own expense.