AMERICA’S MARINES IN SF/SAN LEANDRO (Ep 101) 3:55

Male in Street 1:
These guys have signed up to protect their fellow citizens, I mean, they’re giving it their all.

Female in Street 1:
And the fact that we are free every day, that I am walking down the street shopping with my friend, free and safe and happy, you appreciate that on a daily basis.

Male in Street 2:
I don’t think we’d be where we are today without the people that are over there doing what they do, doing a good job, at it every day, because it’s paying off.

Female Marine:
Sixty percent of the [unintelligible] population is veterans, not just Marines, but also overseas. I serve because it really is a call to duty for me. I very much appreciate all the freedoms I have enjoyed here and I really believe that I need to give back. So that’s why I joined the Marine Corps.

Retired Marine 1:
I enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1967 right after graduating high school. It provided me with the discipline that I needed to better myself as an individual. I went back to night school after I got out of the Marine Corps. I was carrying A’s and B’s at night school full-time while I was working full-time. That was the best, best thing that ever happened to me.

Retired Marine 2:
I’m originally from Vietnam, emigrated over here in 1967. I joined the Marine Corps in June of 1977, right out of high school. I was the first Vietnamese Marine they had. I grew up in Berkeley, with long hair in a ponytail. The Marine Corps teaches you a lot of discipline. I got out and I went to college and from there I joined the police force.


Marine 1:
The students here get to see the discipline and the precision and then they also get to see the human side and find out our backgrounds.

Marine 2:
The fact that they can see how we actually are, rather than having a big crowd and them never knowing us or never seeing our faces this close, that’s kind of cool.

Female in Street 1:
When I look at my kids asleep in bed at night and I see that they’re safe and well fed and I thank my lucky starts that there are people that want to preserve that for America.

Male in Street 2:
I think a lot of people take what they’ve got for granted because they’re not actually out there doing it but there’s a lot of blood, sweat and tears given. Because if it wasn’t for them we wouldn’t have what we have now. We have the freedom of choice and a lot of other things like that. So putting all the politics aside, you know you’re out there, you’re going to get a job done and they’re getting it done.

Female in Street 1:
It’s because of them that we are free.

Female in Street 2:
I’m proud because without them…

Male in Street 1:
It’s the kind of sacrifice that few people are making.