[skeeter]

Perhaps soldiers are just average people, but who would you rather have living next door - one of them or the cupcake who wrote this essay?

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

The winning post of this thread!

Thanks

[huldah1776]

I was living in low income housing. Half of my neighbors were young Marines. If anything ever happened to me I would not have yelled “fire!” but would have yelled “Marines!” and I slept like a child.

I miss them.