The Marine

My track coach in middle school was an old Marine who had served in Vietnam.  He had his quirks, and one was to call any of us a "hippie" if he thought our hair was getting too long (even though he had been out of the Marines for probably 25 years, he still kept his military haircut).  "Time for a haircut, you hippie," he would say.  And if he thought we weren't working hard enough he'd call us a "lazy hippie."  One day one of my teammates asked him what his problem was with hippies, and this set coach off on a tirade.  He began a rant about how hippies were lazy, smelly, un-American, communists, immoral, freeloving, pot smoking, cost us the war, doing all kinds of acts against God and creation, and on and on.  We were all kind of stunned by the outburst, and no one dared ask him anything Vietnam related again.  So, this is just a long introduction to this photo of Marcus Anthony gorilla pressing some long haired dude in front of a bunch of cheering Marines.  I'd like to think of this as Marcus exacting some vengence on hippies in order to restore honor to our men in the milatary.  This one's for you, coach!