> Looking back on those years now, I guess it was to prove to myself that if I couold make it through Marine training then I was not as worthless a human being as I was led to believe growing up
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>My brother went through boot camp at Paris Island - the stories he told me were unreal. The toughest three months of my life were still a walk in the park compared with what he experienced.

What they did to us then, if they did today, the leftists would have everyone in jail, but they were training marines to go to war in Viet Nam and that tought, phyiscal and tortuous trianing is what kept most of them alive.