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In his Happy Birthday, Marines below, Joe Carter humbly neglects to mention the “On the Square” article he wrote for today on a related subject, The True Liberty to Forget . He begins with a story of his days as a Marine recruiter and the surprising ignorance of a young woman he meets while taking a recruiter’s walk on the wild side (visiting a leftist college wearing his dress blues) and moves on to a reflection on the value of what her ignorance suggests.

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