Neanderpundit

Since my daughter was born, I stopped playing the do-over game. You know, the game where you think, “if I could do this all over, I’d ___________.

I wouldn’t do anything that would undo my child. She’s perfect and I wouldn’t have her any other way.

On the other hand, there are some missed opportunities in my life, and among them, in retrospect, I think I’d like to have done a stint in the Marines. I did briefly consider service, and my dad counseled me to go on to school. “If we were at war, son, it would be different. We are at peace.” Dad considered serving to be a great path, if there were a specific reason for the service, but felt I’d be losing four years of education if I stepped away.

Maybe he was right. I do know this: if I was fit enough to lie about my age and ride the bus to Paris Island right now, I would do so, in a heartbeat.

What I can do, is salute the Men and Women of that esteemed Corps on this day.
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Well, it’s not like I haven’t been doing it for years.

And frankly, a good dry fart, as I have mentioned in the posts linked above, is one of the Good Things in life. As some other people have recently realized. Leslie has the rundown, I’m not gonna redo all those damned links.