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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (164693)	7/1/2008 8:36:19 PM
From: Naomi	Read Replies (4) of 225578

<Once a Marine, always a Marine.> How true that statement is. My husband still wears his dog tags every day and has since he joined the Navy at 17. His first Xmas away from home his parents sent him a silver chain for his ID tags and a silver ID bracelet with his name engraved on it. He then was transferred to the Marines and fought at Iwo Jima. Came home to use his GI Bill for college and joined the ROTC after we had married so we would have the extra compensation for the meetings he attended. Went into the Army Quartermaster Corp after finishing college and transferred to 11th Airborne after training at Fort Bragg, where he was happy to be jumping out of airplanes. We then were transferred back to Fort Lee for parachute maintenance where he learned to sew a canvas swimming pool for our Boxer dog. Our child was not allowed in it! After that he came home and went to graduate school. Stayed in the inactive reserve for a few years. I remember him getting a letter requesting how soon he could be ready for combat duty again and he wrote back, "I'm not going to be here, I will be in the mountains vegitating and 'no' I am not ready for combat now or ever again". Very soon after that he resigned his commission. Now by that time we had two children and MY priorities had greatly changed after living on a military base for almost two years. LOL Ken speaking of a tatoo, when he got out of boot camp he also had a small anchor tatooed on his right forearm. As he grew older it faded some, so he decided to have it taken off but didn't finish the treatments so still has the upper part of it on his arm and now says one of these days when he finally retires he will go finish its removal. Can hardly distinguish what it is so I think why bother with it now.

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