[Magdalen] Always a Marine.

Jay Weigel jay.weigel at gmail.com
Sat Aug 22 17:40:00 UTC 2015


​Sleep well tonight. Your National Guard is awake. Remember that? I do. My
son was a Guardsman for many years and served two terms in Iraq. I'm quite
proud that one of these guys was a Guardsman. Hooah!

Jay, still an Army mom at heart​

On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 1:20 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
>


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