{"id":981,"date":"2010-08-22T09:05:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T15:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=981"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:36:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:36:42","slug":"feeling-patriotic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=981","title":{"rendered":"Feeling patriotic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At the Marine Parade<\/p><\/div>\n

Friday night, John and I went to the Marine Barracks to see the\u00a0Marine Parade<\/a> – it was just wonderful. I had met a young Marine a few weeks ago at a party and wanted to see him perform. He’s in the elite 24-person\u00a0Silent Drill Platoon<\/a>, and they were just amazing. They have an incredible routine with their guns, absolutely silent except for the sound of their hands on the guns. Three Marine bands also performed – it was just a wonderful evening.<\/p>\n

Tuesday evening, we had a Juarez reunion happy hour – lots of fun to see our former managers, Ray and Laura, as well as the usual suspects – highlighted by a guest appearance of Jeff, our first boss in NIV who happened to be in town from Canada.<\/p>\n

The rest of the week was pretty calm. We had some rain, which cooled off the city a bit. We took a friend to the airport yesterday, and ran a couple of errands.<\/p>\n

John is in his final two weeks of Hebrew classes before he moves on to a class on political and economic reporting.<\/p>\n

To give you a flavor of Hebrew, I’d thought I’d mention a few basic things about the language – things that continue to trip me up:<\/p>\n

The Hebrew word for “he” sounds like “who.”<\/p>\n

The Hebrew word for “she” sounds like “he.”<\/p>\n

The Hebrew word for “them” sounds like “him.”<\/p>\n

Yes, it’s fun…<\/p>\n

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The girls of Juarez<\/p><\/div>\n


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