Three guys from Iwo Jima

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Sep 27 21:07:44 UTC 2010


On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
>>Have you considered the possibility that there aren't that many ways
>>three guys can raise a flagpole?
>

Weren't there four marines/Marines in the photograph.

A comedian whose name escapes me once noted, WRT his being confronted
on the joint's parking-lot by its security staff:

"I didn't know how many bouncers it was going to take to kick my ass,
but I knew how many they were going to use."

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-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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