He attended schools in Weymouth and then the University of Notre Dame, where he majored in philosophy and graduated in 1959. With military conscription looming, he chose in 1960 to enlist in the Marines, emerging in 1962 as a lance corporal. He learned a lot in those two years, he said, including concepts of leadership encapsulated in a Marine tradition of officers not being fed until their subordinates were.
“Would not our country be a more just and human place,” he wrote in 2010, “if the brass of Wall Street and Washington and executive suites believed that ‘officers eat last’?”
A Marine, too...MS: "Would not our country be a more just and human place, if...officers eat last?"
Replies to: "A Marine, too...MS: "Would not our country be a more just and human place, if...officers eat last?""
- RIP...Mark Shields...ND Alum and noted Political Commentator...blessed with Irish humor... [NT]
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- TyroneIrish - 9:49pm 6/18/22
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- A Marine, too...MS: "Would not our country be a more just and human place, if...officers eat last?" - TyroneIrish - 11:58pm 6/18/22
- Excellent Tyrone! Terrific pivot by Shields. - conorlarkin - 6:58am 6/19/22
- I was curious who Mark Shields was, so I googled him, and up came the editorial with that phrase. - NedoftheHill - 11:12am 6/19/22
- Ned, that quote from Mark Shields had no politics in it at all...it was a wish for all "Leaders", in - TyroneIrish - 1:15pm 6/19/22
- Of course you didn't like the piece. You despise sunshine. [NT]
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- conorlarkin - 11:35am 6/19/22
- I'll write a piece about how he is no Army Officer. You will love the sunshine, I'm sure. - NedoftheHill - 12:10pm 6/19/22
- I was curious who Mark Shields was, so I googled him, and up came the editorial with that phrase. - NedoftheHill - 11:12am 6/19/22
- Who would eat first? On Wall Street and in Washington, they all think they are of the 'chosen,' - JarHead4ND - 3:18am 6/19/22
- That did seem weird. [NT] - NedoftheHill - 10:12am 6/19/22
- Wow! Do you dislike him because he wasn’t a career marine or because - jimbasil - 3:34am 6/19/22
- Wow, did you read something that I did not write? Where did I mention career Marine or Democrat? - JarHead4ND - 3:27am 6/20/22
- ^^^this^^^ [NT] - jimbasil - 12:04am 6/19/22
- Excellent Tyrone! Terrific pivot by Shields. - conorlarkin - 6:58am 6/19/22
- A guy who could disagree without being disagreeable…a major credit to ND [NT]
- Chris94 - 9:57pm 6/18/22
- Says the most disagreeable person on the board [NT] - ColeyO - 6:05pm 6/19/22
- Hmm.... you should learn from him. [NT] - Cole - 4:36am 6/19/22
- A Marine, too...MS: "Would not our country be a more just and human place, if...officers eat last?" - TyroneIrish - 11:58pm 6/18/22