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...great way to meet women and not have sex with them. Most importantly, the priesthood is a pretty stable industry. Recessions, corporations and governments come and go, but religion is here to stay. As the wise poet Horatius Lucretius Quintus wrote, “Amice, semper populi sacerdotum egent,” which translates, “Dude, people always need priests...
Death to tyrants! Sic semper tyrannis. We must all hang together, because the Yankees have been hanging us separately for the past four years, but really the past 100 years...
...waited for the passage of Clinton's welfare bill before resigning because he could not stomach it. He was acting out of principled thinking. But whatever one's reasons, total constancy to the ideal is unrealistic. A Few Good Men was about the potential inhumanity of too much Semper Fi. Even dogs, to whom we assign unswerving devotion, will, because they are dogs, bite the hands that feed them. (Semper Fido...
...West Point cadet and my father who didn't go to college but served twice in Vietnam as a Marine, nothing seems more important than defending those things. Maybe I've just got a sentimental attachment to my brother's "Duty, Honor, Country" and my dad's "Semper Fideles." But I think it's more than that. In June of 2001 my brother will graduate West Point and might be sent--like our dad was in '68--to some dangerous corner of the world to defend his country's ideals. He'll know a lot more about honorable sacrifice...
Four days later--the day after Memorial Day--their North Carolina unit's Marines gathered in their chapel at New River air station. "Semper Fidelis," they intoned solemnly before 700 mourners. "We will never forget you." But despite the service's long and treasured tradition of mutual trust and fierce loyalty, forgetting their men is precisely what the Marines seem to have done in this case...