Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984

George Bernard Shaw was a thin man, and Winston Churchill once took a jab at his slim frame: Churchill: "Looking at you, Mr. Shaw, one would think there was a famine in England." Shaw: "And looking at you, Mr. Churchill, one would think you are the cause of it."

“Captain, see this eagle? I am a full 'Bird' in the US Army Reserve, and on this is a 'Caduceus' which means I am a Nurse, with a surgical specialty, now, take me to your wounded!" He said, "Yes ma'am. follow me." "It was just before Thanksgiving '67 and we were ferrying dead and wounded from a large GRF west of Pleiku. We had run out of body bags by noon, so the Hook (CH-47 CHINOOK) was pretty rough in the back. All of a sudden, we heard a 'take-charge' woman's voice in the rear. There was the singer and actress, Martha Raye, with a SF (Special Forces) beret and jungle fatigues, with subdued markings, helping the wounded into the Chinook, and carrying the dead aboard. ‘Maggie' had been visiting her SF 'heroes' out 'west'. We took off, short of fuel, and headed to the USAF hospital pad at Pleiku. As we all started unloading our sad pax's, a 'Smart Mouth' USAF Captain said to Martha, “Ms Ray, with all these dead and wounded to process, there would not be time for your show!" “Captain, see this eagle? I am a full 'Bird' in the US Army Reserve, and on this is a 'Caduceus' which means I am a Nurse, with a surgical specialty, now, take me to your wounded!" He said, "Yes ma'am. follow me." Martha Raye's exemplary service to the Army - including trips to Vietnam to entertain the Green Berets - earned her a funeral here with full military honors. The Special Forces soldiers called her ``Col. Maggie.'' She said the Green Berets were like her sons, and some even called her ``Mom.'' Today, she is expected to get her wish to be buried alongside them.”. she is the only woman buried in Fort Bragg’s Special Forces Cemetery.

A quick, fun history lesson….. This is a photo of the oldest Recruit In the History of Parris Island- The average age of a United States Marine Corps recruit is 21 years old. When Paul Douglas enlisted in 1942, he left behind his wife, child, and career and reported to Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island at the ripe age of 50. After completing boot camp, Douglas proudly wrote “I found myself able to take the strenuous boot camp training without asking for a moment's time out and without visiting the sick bay.” Following a recommendation from his commanding officer (and a strong recommendation from his old friend Frank Knox,) Douglas was commissioned as a captain in the Marine Corps, after seven months as an enlisted Marine. Douglas went on to serve in the battle of Okinawa, often being remembered by Marines for running around the battlefield with the vigor of a much younger Marine. He was promoted to major during the battle of Okinawa. Douglas had been hit by a machine gun in his left forearm and was evacuated by the men that he had dedicated his life to serving. After being hit, he proceeded to use his uninjured hand to take off his major rank insignia so that he wouldn’t receive special attention. Douglas expressed passionate interest in returning early to his men to continue serving on the front lines. He was hospitalized in San Francisco and subsequently moved to Bethesda, Maryland where it took more than 14 months to be dismissed from the hospital and was medically retired from the Marine Corps, only regaining partial use of his left hand. Because of his brave actions under fire and unselfish service he was promoted to lieutenant colonel a year after he retired in January of 1947. After returning to Chicago as a war hero, Douglas won his spot as Illinois state senator in 1949. Even in public office Douglas continued to advocate for the Marine Corps, and proudly kept the Marine Corps standard displayed in office. Semper Fi, Sir!

A guy was walking down the beach and stubs his toe on something in the sand. He looks down and sees something shiny, so he clears the sand away and reveals a genie’s lamp. He rubs the lamp, the genie pops out and says “Master, I will grant you one wish”. The guy scoffs and says “I thought I was supposed to get three wishes” to which the genies replies “You cannot believe everything you see in the movies, you get one wish” The guy thinks hard and says “I am a wealthy man, I can afford almost anything money can buy. I have seen how beautiful Hawaii is on TV and I have always wanted to visit but I am scared to fly, and I get sea sick on boats. My wish is to have a bridge from California to Hawaii so I can drive there.” The genie gets a look of shock on his face, he says “That is not a wish that I can fulfill, the wish is too extreme and complicated and will not be granted, make your one wish.” The man thinks and thinks and then he says “Aha, I know, I have succeeded in almost all aspects of life, but in doing so I have never been able to find love, I have dated many women, but for one reason or another it never worked out, the women always left me and I cannot understand why. My wish is to be able to understand how women think, to have the knowledge that will allow me to fulfill all a woman’s needs.” The genie replies “Two lanes or four?”

A young Cajun dude was pulled over by the Louisiana state police for speeding. The officer stepped out of his patrol car, adjusted his sunglasses, and swaggered up to the young man's window. "What you driving so fast for son? You going to a fire? Let me see your license, boy." The young dude handed over his license. Then the officer noticed that the back seat of his car was full of large knives. The officer said, "Tell me boy, why you got dem knives on dat back seat?" The young Cajun dude replied, "Well sir, I'm a juggler me." The officer spat some tobacco juice and then he said, "A juggler; well you don't say. Boy, put your hands on da trunk of dis car; you are going to jail son!" The young Cajun dude pleaded with the officer not to take him to jail. He offered to prove to the officer that he was a juggler by way of demonstration. He said, "You can even hold me at gunpoint while me I juggle for you officer." The officer reluctantly decided to allow the Cajun dude to prove his point while he held him at gunpoint. Meanwhile, two miles down the road at City Bar, Boudreaux was drinking it up with his friend, Thibodeaux. He soon left and got into his old, rusty pick-em-up truck. He proceeded down the road trying his best to stay on the right side of the road. Suddenly, Boudreaux spotted the most unbelievable sight of his life! He then drove to the nearest phone booth and dialed the number for City Bar and asked for his buddy, Thibodeaux. When Thib got on the phone Boudreaux said, "Whatever you do Thib, when you leave dat bar, don't go north on highway 442. The state police are giving a sobriety test dat ain't nobody can pass!!"

Those who can’t teach, teach teachers.

kerfuffle commotion, controversy A kerfuffle is some kind of commotion, controversy, or fuss. If you read about a scandal in a newspaper, it could be described as a kerfuffle. Kerfuffle is a humorous-sounding word for a mostly non-humorous situation: some kind of disturbance, scandal or mess. However, a kerfuffle usually isn't 100% serious.

Two good old boys from Newfoundland decide to do some fishing. They go down to the dock and rent a dory. They paddle out into the Atlantic, cast their lines and begin catching fish after fish. “By” says one of them, “Mark this spot sos we can come back and catch more fish!” “ No problem” says his bud. After they land and return the dory, the first guy asks: ”So did you mark the spot?” “Yah, by, I painted an X on the bottom of the boat.” “Ya dumb Newfie” says the first guy “How djy’a know we’ll get the same boat next time?”

If you recall Band of Brothers, when Easy Company liberated the concentration camp, they were admonished that feeding the starved inmates had to be done carefully.

The Baptist preacher just finished his sermon for last Sunday's worship service. He proceeded toward the back of the church for his usual greetings and handshaking as the congregation began to file out of the little Louisiana Southern Baptist Church. After shaking a few adult hands, he came upon the seven year old son of one of the Deacons of the church. "Good morning, T-Boud," the preacher said as he reached out to shake his Cajun cousin Boudreaux's young son's hand. As he was doing so, he felt something in the palm of T-Boudreaux's hand. "What's dis?" the preacher asked. "Money," said T-Boud with a great big smile on his face, "It's for you!" "I don't want to take your money," the preacher answered. "I want you to have it," said little Boudreaux. After a short pause he continued, "My daddy says you is da poorest preacher we ever had and I wants to help you."

Cajun Logic Marie walked into da kitchen and saw Boudreaux wit a fly swatter. She axed him, “Any Luck?" Boudreaux say, “Mais yea, I done kill tree males and two females." Marie axed, “Mais cher, how can you tell dem apart?" Boudreaux say, “Mais dats easy cher . . . tree was on dat beer can and two was on da telephone."

Twilight Zone

Mayo-pesto sauce i like pesto, often make it myself. I end up with far more than I can use. Yes, I know I can freeze it. Anyway, I figured I’d try a variation. this recipe uses a mix of mayonnaise, pesto, mustard, and lemon juice in the ratio of 8:4:2:1, mix, let flavors marry overnight in the fridge, use. I’d use it on some pastas, roasted potatoes, other places that I’d dress with pesto. I’ve made Mayo, pesto, and mustard but for this I’m using everything store bought.

March 1942, Captain James L. Neefus returning to his dugout quarters on Midway. Flying a Brewster Buffalo and leading a 3 plane Section had just returned from shooting down a Japanese “Mavis” amphibious patrol bomber. The first known shoot down of a Japanese aircraft by a U.S. Marine in WW2 for which Admiral Nimitz awarded him the Navy Cross. He earned his wings in 1936, retired in June, 1962 after 14 years as a full colonel, a rank achieved in August, 1950 while CAG 23 for the Inchon Landing. Ordered to learn to fly helicopters, he helped develop USMC vertical envelopment tactics due to his experience in close air support in the Solomon Islads Campaign as a Squadron Leader of VRF 215 and then Assistant Air Opns. Officer on General Geiger’s staff. He participated in development of close air support for Marine units in close contact with the Japanese, utilizing early portable radios in the hands of pilots tasked to go with the “crunchies.” He personally check out Charles Lindbergh on the F4U Corsair in theatre. His last billet was as Chief of Staff, 2nd Marine Air Wing, Cherry Point, NC.,1962. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetary.

Beautiful, needs to be black!

PayPal let some guy take $14 from my account. I no longer leave a card active there. A bank would give me the $14 but PayPal is not a bank and said that IF they recovered the money they’d return it to me.

Will it break out in blooms in a month or so?

We were playing poker at the time of the fire, your full house kings over jacks beat my eights over aces.

New England does not have them. Ages ago it was believed they never came here. There was a suspected twister in Worcester but it was never believed or confirmed. Many years later another one happened and weather science had advanced a tad so they could look at the evidence and conclude that, yes, it was a tornado. They are more rare than getting hit by lightning.

Mustaches we’re allowed?

Not just the man portables.

THAT would be salutations.