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Originally Posted by Sid70
Isn't it your past? Let it rest.
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I've never met a marine who considered the Marine Corps "past". You can meet a 68-year-old guy at a bar, and he'll still correct you if you ask, "Were you a marine?" Get ready for him to say, "No. I AM a marine."
It's just not part of the culture to think of being a marine as something you can stop being, and I completely understand why it would bug somebody to meet an impostor. Anybody in the marine corps has worked way too hard to let somebody else get away with that. It's also kind of a violation of the other guy's integrity, if he is a marine, to claim that he's something he's not -- which would bug a serious marine even more.