I was wondering why the roads and train today was so empty, and it's apparently for Veteran's Day. It's a bit of as neglected holiday, but everyone can use it as a moment for any type of reflection they please, of course. I will just mention that my dad was in Vietnam, and though he won't ever read this, I've always found it admirable.
Anyway, National Review Online has a batch of articles for the holiday posted. I really liked this one about R. Lee Ermey. Here's an excerpt:
Not for nothing did legendary movie director Stanley Kubrick drop his originally cast actor and hire Ermey to play the toughest, meanest, and most memorable military drill instructor ever to grace the silver screen, Full Metal Jacket’s Gunnery Sgt. Hartman. The result was the film’s now-classic opening scene, in which Ermey strides round a Vietnam-era Marine barracks and delivers a brutal, obscenity-laced monologue to a pack of fresh recruits. Ermey wrote most of the lines — most of which plumb unexplored depths of creative vulgarity — himself, and now, after George Carlin, he may be the most famous foul-mouth in recent history.
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