View Full Version : Marine Corps kids respect on the playground. COLORS!!
Marine Corps kids playing on the playground on base...when colors sound this is what happens. And what SHOULD happen! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhkMwAhIOcU&sns=em)
Now, that does my heart good. :cool:
rubberneck
04-30-2012, 08:08
It's amazing the results you can get with good parenting.
BMT (RIP)
04-30-2012, 08:09
Our grandson and his buds did the same thing at Ft Benning!!
BMT
It's amazing the results you can get with good parenting.
If that is, indeed, the case.
Call me jaded...but...it might just be something like some parent telling their kids and playmates, "OK, kids, when the music plays I want you to stop playing and stand still until it's over so I can record you on my iPhone and we'll post it on the Internet for Grampa and Grandma and your friends to see."
What was the person recording that scene doing to show their respect for the colors while the music was playing..." :rolleyes:
The video is also labeled as "Colors" but the music was "Retreat" and not "Colors" or "To The Colors"...I thought the USMC PR ffolkes were better than that.
Just sayin'...and so it goes...
Richard :munchin
If that is, indeed, the case.
Call me jaded...but...it might just be something like some parent telling their kids and playmates, "OK, kids, when the music plays I want you to stop playing and stand still until it's over so I can record you on my iPhone and we'll post it on the Internet for Grampa and Grandma and your friends to see."
What was the person recording that scene doing to show their respect for the colors while the music was playing..." :rolleyes:
The video is also labeled as "Colors" but the music was "Retreat" and not "Colors" or "To The Colors"...I thought the USMC PR ffolkes were better than that.
Just sayin'...and so it goes...
Richard :munchin
Richard...Lemme guess. You told your kids there was no such thing as Santa Claus when they were 5 years old? :munchin
If that is, indeed, the case.
Call me jaded...but...it might just be something like some parent telling their kids and playmates, "OK, kids, when the music plays I want you to stop playing and stand still until it's over so I can record you on my iPhone and we'll post it on the Internet for Grampa and Grandma and your friends to see."
What was the person recording that scene doing to show their respect for the colors while the music was playing..." :rolleyes:
The video is also labeled as "Colors" but the music was "Retreat" and not "Colors" or "To The Colors"...I thought the USMC PR ffolkes were better than that.
Just sayin'...and so it goes...
Richard :munchin
Richard.......
Come on now ........ Not every thing is staged and even if it was good for them. I remember being on base as a kid and if we did not stop and stand at attention we were toast. I know it was a different day and time but I held my kids to that same standard when we were on base.
Here is a clip that that was not staged ............
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIHz5tevLAw&feature=related
Kids are doing that today; and - get this - it's an AIR FORCE BASE!!! All the little kids in the neighborhood - mine included - stop, face the flag, and either salute or place their hands over their heart. Funny watching the younger kids saluting with the left hand...
Gotta love military kids.
1stindoor
04-30-2012, 10:36
Kids are doing that today; and - get this - it's an AIR FORCE BASE!!! All the little kids in the neighborhood - mine included - stop, face the flag, and either salute or place their hands over their heart. Funny watching the younger kids saluting with the left hand...
Gotta love military kids.
I grew up on an Air Force Base, granted it was nearly 40 years ago...and I remember stopping what you were doing was the norm for all of us MIL brats. Of course it was SOP for one of the adult neighbors to rat you out to your parents if you didn't.
KimuraFTW
04-30-2012, 10:45
If that is, indeed, the case.
Call me jaded...but...it might just be something like some parent telling their kids and playmates, "OK, kids, when the music plays I want you to stop playing and stand still until it's over so I can record you on my iPhone and we'll post it on the Internet for Grampa and Grandma and your friends to see."
What was the person recording that scene doing to show their respect for the colors while the music was playing..." :rolleyes:
The video is also labeled as "Colors" but the music was "Retreat" and not "Colors" or "To The Colors"...I thought the USMC PR ffolkes were better than that.
Just sayin'...and so it goes...
Richard :munchin
That's exactly what I was thinking even though I wished that wasn't one of the first things that came to mind. I've never lived on base so I'm not sure how children behave, but you can't ignore the fact that whoever was recording could have easily just told them to do that for recording purposes...
Dozer523
04-30-2012, 11:42
I grew up on an Air Force Base, granted it was nearly 40 years ago...and I remember stopping what you were doing was the norm for all of us MIL brats. Of course it was SOP for one of the adult neighbors to rat you out to your parents if you didn't. Growing up on the Percedio of San Francisco, Ft Sill, FT Carson, and Ft Leavenworth -- me, my brothers and sisters, and all our friends did it. We were afraid the MPs would arrest us and our Dads would get in trouble. We knew that trouble would increase exponentally when Dad got back to us.
I remember dropped flyballs and once it interupted a fight. Good thing too, I was getting whupped.
Red Flag 1
04-30-2012, 12:13
So very nice to see that. Those are American children; I am proud of them, and their parents.
RF 1
Badger52
04-30-2012, 12:40
I don't care about motive and I'm at least as jaded as QP Richard.
Glass half-full, maybe it was simply the first time someone had mutually supportive demonstrators to create the example. Perhaps it's set in a few now, who may do it in the future, who may set the example for the one that forgets and starts to walk by, who will then stop because of the example and the internal dope-slap that follows.
It beats the hell out of teachers coaxing up some class of little kids to re-word hymms about electing their beloved one....
:rolleyes:
If that is, indeed, the case.
Call me jaded...but...it might just be something like some parent telling their kids and playmates, "OK, kids, when the music plays I want you to stop playing and stand still until it's over so I can record you on my iPhone and we'll post it on the Internet for Grampa and Grandma and your friends to see."
Just sayin'...and so it goes...
Richard :munchin
Medic! Richard's got Sigabitis!
PedOncoDoc
04-30-2012, 14:12
Medic! Richard's got Sigabitis!
When I first read that, I thought it said, "Sigabatits!" :D (What would Freud think about that one?) :eek:
Regardless, I'd like to think this was not staged (despite the opportune filming).
Maybe I'm not jaded enough yet - I must need a less chipper job... ;)
When I first read that, I thought it said, "Sigabatits!" :D (What would Freud think about that one?) :eek:
You mean, what would Freud think about the fact that you thought it said, "Sigabatits"? Hmmm. : :D
Medic! Richard's got Sigabitis!
He said jaded not bitter...he did it in less than 10,000 characters...no footnotes...and no lecture...I suspect a mild case - at best - but certainly defer to opinions from the medical professionals. :D
Nice example of showing due respect.
Chapeau!
I remember on Okinawa, in '68, making a BX run down to Kadena and the LN taxi driver pulling over and getting out of the car when Retreat sounded. Of course, we still owned the island back then. ;)
Pat
Now that is how ALL kids should react.