Posted on 01/19/2019 2:14:39 PM PST by Saint X
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY, Va. – R. Lee Ermey, the actor and former U.S. Marine drill instructor who achieved iconic status after appearing in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket, was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday.
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Watermelons across the world feel a little safer now.
Obama voter
R.I.P., Gunny & SEMPER FI.
Yours, TMN78247
USA, Retired
Always wondered what sort of relationship Ermey had with Vincent D’Onofrio after they made “Full Metal Jacket”. Suspect it was not warm and fuzzy.
People make mistakes. He admitted it was a huge mistake.
I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt.
Semper Fi, Gunny.
The world is a bit colder with you gone.
Rest in Peace.
My wife and I got a chance to speak with him a couple of times. I brought our Weinerdog to an event he was at. R. Lee had lost his Weinerdog not shortly before so he snuggled our dog and talked passionately about what a good friend he had just lost. It was not the way one might imagine a visit with him would be.
In my youth I’ve done WAY dumber things than vote for Obama, but at his age???? A military man??
Dem ain’t no watermelons, dey be the ENEMY! Fire at will!
People make mistakes. It’s life.
If we were perfect, there wouldn’t be mistakes. But we’re not. So there are.
That doesn’t negate everything else he accomplished and all the good he did - which is way more than a lot of us ever will accomplish in our short trips around the sun.
“WHAT IS YOIR MAJOR MALFUNCTION, PRIVATE?”
May he rest in peace.
“He admitted it was a huge mistake.”
Must have been the first time. I can’t imagine him doing that twice.
I believe it was.
Will look for the source to back it up and send you.
I see him as a wise insider who hated McCain even more than FR does. :)
How wise is it to vote for Obama?
I know quite a few people I respect that admitted to me that they voted for Obama.
The MSM was more effective back then. And by the end of Bush’s 2nd term the GOP was thoroughly drug thru the mud.
But every one of them except one fessed up that it was a mistake.
Do you forget who 0bama’s opponent was?
You were in my face aways calling me and us girls, ladies, pukes, pieces of shit, assholes and a few others I can't remember.
My legs roared with pain, my arms bursting from "just one more", my mind desparately trying to fantasize me growing up like the cartoon HULK and whippin' the SHIT out'a you, but you were relentless, you son of a bitch.
But I made it through Basic Sahge (I was in the Army n' we didn't have gunny's) ... n' I was from Boston n' had no "R's .... just AH'es, n you was SAHGE.
And you started me on the CORRECT road to manhood I didn't see comin' until 30 or so years later.
So thanx, Sahge .... rest now .... and I hope I've learned something from you that I passed on to MY boys and any others I could influence.
Thank you for helping me be an American man.
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