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Originally posted by Team Sergeant
That's going to leave a mark...
But they turned downright nasty after the Massachusetts senator thanked them "for their service" and left.
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I don't know what it is about politicians when they meet service folk, especially when you know what they say just is downright ingenuous. We have three of the worst low life, pond scum sucking politicians in the country up here. When I first got to Vermont right about Memorial Day '93 there was a letter in the local paper describing how all the old vets up here were thinning out of the ranks and some that made it a personal mission of carrying the colors for the the Fourth and Memorial Day parades needed some help. So I showed up on the Fourth in class "A"s and offered to carry the national colors. What I did not know was that Senator Leahy was to be the grand marshall and as such rode in the convertible behind the colors. I did all I could to ignore the SOB and at the end of the parade he made it a point to come over to the four of us. He looked me over and made some stupid comment about his service to the country as a senator and that we all serve in our own way and as I tried to break contact tactfully without puking he addressed me directly and asked what I thought of the days festivities and the fact that the small town of Randolph would have one to the two senators as its grand marshall. Well I did the best I could to not tell him to go f*** off and instead I told him, "Pat (I refused to call him Senator) I found it quite refreshing and a real pleasure to have a democrat follow me for once rather than me having to follow him."
Then I called the color guard to attention and dismissed them.
Jack Moroney