Why Would She Deny It?

by **Fartsniffage** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 5:12 am

The Parkus Empire wrote:If you're counting Marines, I think it would be other three branches, wouldn't it? Or are Royal Marines not a branch of their own like the USMC is?

Not a separate branch.

They're a part of the Navy.

by **Nneka Egbuna** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 5:21 am

Imsogone wrote:Most Marines I've met and heard about are proud of their service. Most of them say "once a Marine, always a Marine". Esprit d'corps and loyalty are hallmarks of the Marine Corps. So why would Bea Arthur deny having served? And as one of the first women to enlist in the Corps? Makes no sense to me.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/ ... ing-marine

It doesn't really have to make sense to you why she did this. People are not always proud of things they've done in their past.

I met a WWII veteran who was a medic in the battle field and he was never proud of having served nor of seeing what he saw. Of course, this gentleman never denied he served in the military, but he wasn't proud either.

by **The Bleeding Roses** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 5:24 am

Perhaps she doesn't consider operating a typewriter on the home front during the war as serving as a Marine?

by **The Parkus Empire** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 5:27 am

The Bleeding Roses wrote:Perhaps she doesn't consider operating a typewriter on the home front during the war as serving as a Marine?

Maybe. Though that certainly doesn't coincide with the Marine Corps ideals (however, it does coincide with some infantry ideals).

by **The Bleeding Roses** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 5:31 am

The Parkus Empire wrote:
The Bleeding Roses wrote:Perhaps she doesn't consider operating a typewriter on the home front during the war as serving as a Marine?

Maybe. Though that certainly doesn't coincide with the Marine Corps ideals (however, it does coincide with some infantry ideals).

It was WW2. Pretty hard to measure up against charging Guadalcanal.

by **Vonners** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 5:32 am

The Bleeding Roses wrote:Perhaps she doesn't consider operating a typewriter on the home front during the war as serving as a Marine?

Every Marine is a Rifleman first...

by **The Bleeding Roses** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 5:34 am

Vonners wrote:
The Bleeding Roses wrote:Perhaps she doesn't consider operating a typewriter on the home front during the war as serving as a Marine?

Every Marine is a Rifleman first...

Not the women in WW2.

by **Vonners** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 5:40 am

The Bleeding Roses wrote:
Vonners wrote:
Every Marine is a Rifleman first...

Not the women in WW2.

Quite. Myths are great though aren't they?

by **Fartsniffage** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 5:43 am

The Bleeding Roses wrote:It was WW2. Pretty hard to measure up against charging Guadalcanal.

Logistics wins wars. People sat at typewriters are a part of that.

by **Vonners** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 5:47 am

Fartsniffage wrote:
The Bleeding Roses wrote:It was WW2. Pretty hard to measure up against charging Guadalcanal.

Logistics wins wars. People sat at typewriters are a part of that.

Holy shit! You mean the 101st Fighting Keyboarders actually helped to win a war??? :blink:

by **The Bleeding Roses** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 5:50 am

Fartsniffage wrote:
The Bleeding Roses wrote:It was WW2. Pretty hard to measure up against charging Guadalcanal.

Logistics wins wars. People sat at typewriters are a part of that.

Rosie the riveter helped win the war too, doesn't make her contribution the same as the island hoppers.

by **Fartsniffage** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 5:50 am

Vonners wrote:Holy shit! You mean the 101st Fighting Keyboarders actually helped to win a war???

The War on Sanity was a bloody close run thing until they got involved.

by **The Bleeding Roses** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 5:58 am

Speaking of women in WW2.

Two amazing movies.

by **Ifreann** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 6:02 am

Call to power wrote:maybe we should believe her?

also that if your not in the Army what's the point? *scampers*

Pfft. Everyone knows that real men rush onto the battlefield alone without joining any branch of the armed forces.

by **Wilgrove** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 6:07 am

Imsogone wrote:Most Marines I've met and heard about are proud of their service. Most of them say "once a Marine, always a Marine". Esprit d'corps and loyalty are hallmarks of the Marine Corps. So why would Bea Arthur deny having served? And as one of the first women to enlist in the Corps? Makes no sense to me.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/ ... ing-marine

Not everyone brags about serving in the military. My dad served 4 years in the Army and he doesn't talk about it that much. He just considered it a job he had to do in order to support him and my mom soon after they got married.

by **Vonners** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 6:08 am

Fartsniffage wrote:
Vonners wrote:Holy shit! You mean the 101st Fighting Keyboarders actually helped to win a war???

The War on Sanity was a bloody close run thing until they got involved.

You are very much spot on!

by **The Parkus Empire** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 6:08 am

Ifreann wrote:Pfft. Everyone knows that real men rush onto the battlefield alone without joining any branch of the armed forces.

Real men and:

by **Ifreann** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 6:10 am

The Parkus Empire wrote:
Ifreann wrote:Pfft. Everyone knows that real men rush onto the battlefield alone without joining any branch of the armed forces.

Real men and:

Real men and cartoons. *nods*

by **The Parkus Empire** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 6:13 am

Ifreann wrote:Real men and cartoons. *nods*

Not just any cartoon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UQyPXbjL-A

by **Desperate Measures** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 6:39 am

by **Coccygia** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 2:10 pm

Obviously her dead body should be dug up and defiled for this offense to the honor of the Corps.

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