Maj. Gen. Mike Lehnert, commander of Marine Corps Bases (West):
"When we sent my son to Stanford four years ago, we filled out a form asking for demographic information. One of the questions for the parents said, what is your profession? After it was a list of about thirty professions including doctor, lawyer, congressman, educator, architect. Military was not listed so I filled in “other.”
"My son was the only graduate who had a parent serving in the armed forces. As I was introduced to his friends’ parents, it was interesting to watch their reaction. Few had ever spoken to a member of the military. One asked me how my son was able to gain admittance with the disadvantage of having to attend “those DoD schools.” Many voiced support for our military and told me that they’d have served but clearly military service was not for their kind of people…"
Revealing speech transcript at American Thinker. Via In From The Cold.
Which reminds me that you could not find a better picture of yesterday’s and today’s troops than in the pages of "Flags of Our Fathers," James Bradley’s narrative of his father’s Marine rifle company on Iwo Jima in 1945.
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