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Marine 1st Lt. Clebe McClary Next, they'll be trying to snuff out officers who are too straight, or too white... (Gazette) A religious rights group is calling for the removal of the Air Force Academy’s top officer after a flap over a speaker planned for a February prayer luncheon at the school.The Military Religious Freedom Foundation says the academy’s choice of retired Marine 1st Lt. Clebe McClary shows that superintendent Lt. Gen. Mike Gould remains tilted toward evangelical Christianity and tolerates an environment where proselytizing is accepted.Lt. Gen. Mike Gould“We’re done,” said academy graduate Mikey Weinstein, the foundation’s founder and...

The following is an actual account, a true story of one Marine's experience in Vietnam. It has been published in a book called "Living Proof", and made into a movie called, "Clebe McClary:Portrait of An American Hero". Perhaps you will enjoy, as many thousands of others have, reading this true story of how a young Marine lieutenant with 12 others were overrun by over 150 North Vietnamese soldiers, ran out of ammo, fought hand to hand for their lives, and how the story ends. Here it is: "If there was a perfect place for a boy to grow up, I...