1. MissBirdlegs in AL

   05/17/2008 at 10:00 am

   Did you check out the story behind the ad? It’s a real goodie. Like you, I think this ad is just tops!

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2. Isaac

   05/17/2008 at 10:27 am

   I think Marcus posted this quite a while back. Really cool ad, makes me want to join up (if I had not decided already).

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3. sue

   05/17/2008 at 1:54 pm

   It’s awesome. Miss B, I think Marcus posted a different one with the same drill team. In fact I think there have been several posted, but each one is amazing. God Bless our Fighting Men and Women, Heroes all!!

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4. yankeemom

   05/18/2008 at 7:08 am

   The Marines’ commercials always give me goosebumps. Their Silent Drill Team is beyond awesome! (Tho the Army’s latest commercials make me cry as well as give me goosebumps – just chalk it up to an Army Mom thing)
   If I was 30 years younger ~ and not the idiot I was then…

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5. Michelle

   05/18/2008 at 8:53 am

   I really liked the video. It is poetry in motion! I think it helps unite the country with the defenders of our freedom. The land with the people. The unity of the drill shown in the video reminds me of the will of the American people. This lets me know that my personal freedoms are safe from tyranny. I am so greatful to all of our servce men and women! Thanks for sharing!

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6. Ky Woman

   05/20/2008 at 4:26 am

   Wow! This makes the heart swell with pride. Even more so now as 3 of my nephews have all joined the Marines in the last 4 months.

   Thanks!

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7. Becky

   05/20/2008 at 4:27 pm

   My eyes well up every time I see this: some of the bravest men in the world, pictured in the most beautiful country in the world.

   (How do they keep those pants so white out there in the desert?)

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8. Kathi Redding

   05/21/2008 at 3:41 am

   CJ -
   Isn’t that the Eagle, Globe and Anchor (the Marines pin) on the top of your web site next to the Army logo?
   I watched a documentary on how they made this commercial a few months ago and it was awesome. Glad you posted it!

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9. Rose Spoltore

   05/28/2008 at 11:18 am

   If I could speak to all of the fallen soldiers…would you do it again? To their families….no one could understand your loss….the marketing campaign to enlist soldiers for the benefit of the pockets of some politicians and their contractors (they get paid to first destroy and then they get paid to rebuilt–at the cost of these prescious young men….

   There Was Once a Great Nation

   It%u2019s a great nation!! It was founded by the pilgrims who decided to leave their own country, one which didn%u2019t encourage freedom of religion or freedom of speech or freedom of the individual. They migrated to an uncivilized land inhabited only by savages.
   The rock where they landed was to become a national shrine and one of the most famous monuments in the world. They drove off the natives, built crude shelters and houses of worship, meanwhile setting aside a special day to give thanks.
   These Pilgrims; all stern, austere men, believed in their God, but they also believed in work. They established schools under religious leaders which in a way, became the first public, free education in the world.
   Through hard, determined labor, they forged a colony while the rest of the world chuckled. But the Pilgrims persevered; intolerant of wrong doing, they used gallows to punish criminals. In their day to day activities, they had no patience for the weak and degenerate, who they thought, if they pampered, would become a cancer to the nation. Shortly, these pilgrims engaged in trade and commerce and as their nation grew and progressed, they became moderately prosperous.
   Other colonists came and established other communities and some of the noblest words ever written began to surface on the facades of the modern government buildings. Words such as liberty, justice, and freedom.
   Then one of the older nations sent tax agents to exploit the colonies. Alarmed, the colonists sent their greatest men as representatives to a general assembly. Choosing a gentleman farmer as their leader, they united and shook off the shackles of oppression. They won the fight against the old world and became a strong nation. The gentleman farmer chosen is today known as the father of his country, a famous US city is named after him. The new nation formed two houses of government; the more powerful was the Senate. The members could be elected only if they were men of propriety, honor, patriotism and religion. The nation became a Republic, though it is a republic no longer.
   Ultimately, a civil war divided the fledging country. It%u2019s leader, a man who tried to keep the republic united, was assassinated in the shadows of government buildings.
   Eventually, many of the nation%u2019s Senators became ambitious for power and began to make deals with leaders of important factions. The republic then became entangled with alliances with foreign nations. The alliances brought wars; wars brought taxes. The citizens didn%u2019t seem to mind the taxes, because war after all, also increased trade and industry. And truly new taxes really affected only the rich.
   Eventually, the farmers rebelled, sending petitions for subsidies to the government, asking for price supports. The government wanting support for its own schemes bought up surplus crops and stored them in warehouses where they rotted and were destroyed. Not to be outdone, the industrialists were next to ask for tax benefits.
   Finally, the government became all powerful. It guaranteed to protect the people from all forces of nature. Taxation grew and grew. Bureaucracy thrived; free housing, freed food and free entertainment came next. And the people grabbed at it. The numbers of the middle class declined under the added tax burden and crime became so commonplace that it was dangerous to walk the street at night.
   A crippled man led the nation into another war and foreign entanglements. Patriots became known as radicals. A general who had been victimized by government, pleaded with the union to remember her past; to return to honor, to decent government, to the principals of the founding fathers. The people scoffed and the general died thinking bitterly anguished thoughts of the people in his country.
   An honest Senator dared to speak out for the halt of foreign subversion and continued foreign aid, which drained away the people%u2019s money. The public at large recoiled and branded him a reactionary.
   The nation fell deeper into debt. It joined a league of the worlds nations with enemies that exploited her. She increased taxes to send her wheat to these enemies; she devalued her currency, substituting her base materials for the precious metals in her coins. She became allied with powerful barbarians and entered still another stupid war. She sent experts to school the barbarians in the latest scientific discoveries of warfare. The Nation became totally corrupt. The middle class was finally dead. Barbarians moved in and took over; the civilization was destroyed.
   That nation was Ancient Rome. The Pilgrim%u2019s Rock was the foundation of the Temple of Jupiter. The gentleman farmer was Cincinnatus, the assassinated leader was Julius Caeser, the crippled leader was Caligula, the general was Mark Anthony and the honest Senator was Cicero.
   Did you think we might be talking about the United States of America? Did you see the similarity in the development and the progress, within this nation. Stop and think just a minute%u2014if the hands on the face of a clock were to indicate the birth and the decline of a nation, where would those hands e pointing today? How far along the way would this country be?
   It started out with people who escaped oppression and grew in spiritual faith; from spiritual faith they gained courage, and from courage they sought liberty; from liberty, abundance; and from abundance they became selfish. From selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency and from dependency back again to bondage and oppression. Picture the face of the great clock of time where are the hands of time for the United States??
   America has always strived for liberty, for opportunity, for brotherhood, for human dignity and for religious freedom. The very hope of man, the thoughts of his heart, the religion of nations, the manners and morals of mankind are today at the mercy of succeeding generation. May God shed His grace on them.

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