Your comments about "PC" and filters much appreciated. Filters are often silliness on stilts. Some military websites have monitors who do what they are supposed to… but there are a few who leave it all to the filters. The results? Writing about an Australian with whom I served with… his first name, "Mick"… the filter censored it to "XXXX"… writing about Vietnam, the name "Ho Chi Minh" was censored to "XX Chi Minh…"
When they sent us home on leave from BITS Battalion in early 1969 they reminded us that when we were at the family table, we could ask someone to pass the butter without describing it. But we must never censor our Marine culture and history. "Retreat XXXX, we just got here…!" doesn't cut it…
James F. Owings
0311 1968-70