I'm a twenty-seven year retiree. I spent a year and a half in the Army, three years and eleven months in the Navy, four years in the Marine Corps, and seventeen and a half years in the National Guard. A few years ago I went on a job interview. This was a trucking company seeking a driver. During the interview the woman frowned upon seeing that I had been a Marine. "Oh, I see you were in the Marine's." She said. "Marine's I have met seem to have attitudes ." I chuckled, "Being a Marine is something you earn." I replied. She fowned once more so I explained it to her. "In Army bootcamp your called a soldier. In Navy bootcamp your a Seaman. In the Airforce one is called an Airman. In Marine Corps bootcamp you are called everything in the book except a Marine. For thirteen weeks you question your ancestery. On the morning you graduate is the first time you are called a Marine. So it's not an attitude. It's something we have earned. So you see I am proud to wear the Eagle, Globe and Anchor of the United States Marines." I left the woman speechless and walked out. Needless to say, I didn't take the job.