Guest blogging, VMFA VI

Posted by Lex, on August 9, 2006

He woke up with a start. A giant floor fan stood roaring in the doorway. As he gathered his thoughts, he remembered the night before. After eating at Mariposa, he had gone with Rocky to one of the clubs, trying to continue the discussion they had begun. San Miguel intervened. Some of the other guys from the shop were there and the party had begun in earnest. A mix of girls, dancing and beer. Sometime around 2300, he had walked back over the river and taken a taxi back the mountain to the modified Baker buildings that served as enlisted barracks for visiting squadrons.

Credo

"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me."

— John Paul Jones

"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature"

— George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."

— Edmund Burke

"Μολὼν λαβέ"

— Leonidas

"Blogito Ergo Sum"

— Neptunus Lex