[Magdalen] Always a Marine.

[ME Michaud]

First reports, especially those with a romantic or pseudo-
historic bias, should be regarded with  skepticism.

According to this morning's news they were not Marines.
One was a member of the Air Force and one a National
Guardsman. The third was a university student.
-M, who has been praised and condemned  for her sang
froidity on manyoccasions


On Saturday, August 22, 2015, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

>
> The French news media employed a word they gave to English intact
> more than 250 years ago in describing the quick, life-saving action  of
> two US Marine tourists on le chemin de fer yesterday:   "sangfroid".
>
> Though literally, "cold blood," it means with "calm courage under  stress"
> in both languages.
>
>