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    Can you be friends with a branch of your government's military? Wednesday, January 10, 2007 |

    It's a good day for the blog. I checked my email around 11 this morning. I had one. It was from the Marine Corp. Here it is.

    Hi Andrew,

    United States M    arines would like to be added to your MySpace friends list.

    By accepting United States Marines as your friend, you will be able to send United States Marines personal messages, view United States Marines's photos and blog, and interact with each other's friends and network!


    Click the following link     to view United States Marines's profile and accept or reject this user as your friend:
    http://www1.myspace.com/reloc.cfm?c=1&id=E2DC6610-BD1C-4ACD-81F2-FA1EB8794BDD


    Now, I immediately had several thoughts flood my brain.

    First...I wish I had the tape of the initial meeting when some corporal in the PR department at the Marines said "Eureka! Everyone knows we need to attract 18-30 year old males to come fight in this war and be all they can be. I know where to look...MySpace! We'll create a profile and ask them to accept us as their friend. Once we become friends we can ask them to enlist! It's fool proof!"

    Second...This has got to be a joke.

    Third...This isn't a joke.

    Fourth...I've got to approve them! They could come hunt me down, stab me, etc.

    So I approved them and visited their page.

    You might find this little tidbit interesting...

    United States Marines's Details
    Status: Single
    Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

    Let me disclaim this post (for Vac). I am in no way belittling the Marine Corp...I'm simply stunned that they have a MySpace page.

    Enjoy.

    http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&
    friendid=124413513

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