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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’?”

Did not know Shields was a Marine.

“Officers eat last” is a great tradition, and a line frequently employed at family and friends gatherings, along with “Today Devil Dogs!!!” in an attempt to get the younger ones through the serving line and seated at the table.

It was quite the petty and juvenile attack piece. I guess I'm not surprised, since you guys loved him so much. It could have been a pompous larkin or tyrone post, in as much as he seemed to be touting his own moral superiority for petty political gain.

all aspects of life, to care first for the well-being of those they were responsible for, and not themselves...surely you agree with that sentiment...right?

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Link: https://www.nvdaily.com/opinion/syndicated-columnists/mark-shields-officers-eat-last/article_9506a0cd-2dfd-5cf1-b806-392d7a2f2537.html

I'm sure you would think it sophisticated and mature.

Oh, wait, I forgot. You don't judge speech or people or government acts by their own merits. You judge them on how much they help your party gain more political power.

by merely working in those environs.

Interesting that when enlisting in 1960 he did not choose to go to OCS, he would have been out in 1963 before Maines were sent to South Vietnam.. He must have had a train to catch.

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he was a Democrat?

I am going to assume that you did not serve so starting from that point, and trying to be clear, I was curious why Mr. Shields did not attend OCS because we were one year apart in dates of entry and I am fully aware of what programs were available to him at the time. Had you served or even inquired with a recruiting office, you would have known that.

To be clear, I was not a career Marine but I did serve two tours of twelve months and twenty days each flying combat missions in the RVN, NVN and Laos but as I have posted on this board, after I was honorably discharged from active duty, I flew for a commercial airline and subsequently, after early retirement, I have been practicing law and have a firm with offices in California and North Carolina.

So, not to put too fine a point on it, I was not a career Marine and would not hold anything against Mr. Shields, my Marine brother, a concept that you are unlikely to be familiar with. Perhaps you can BM conor for some insight in that regard. I assume you know that conor is a Marine brother of mine and a Democrat.

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