R. Lee Ermey Quotes
What is your major malfunction?
Kubrick, Stanley, director. Full Metal Jacket. Warner Bros., 1987.
The New York City comptroller was outraged by the new president of the Board of Alderman, former congressman Fiorello La Guardia, who later became mayor of New York. The two men clashed constantly, especially at meetings of the New York City Board of Estimate, where the comptroller made an unusual request of the chairman:
In the wake of the Tonkin Gulf incident, the United States bombed and destroyed North Vietnam naval installations:
La Guardia was a very short man and he had gone up to the much larger “poll watcher” and ripped his official button off his coat. The Tammany Hall political machine would appoint thugs as poll watchers to intimidate the voters. If the poll watcher was an "official" voters thought that they might have access to the ballot information and know whether or not they voted for the machine candidates. Their presense was often sufficient intimidation to assure party line voting by most people.
Prieto had repeatedly warned the Prime Minister that there was a military coup in preparation to oust his government and establish a Fascist dictatorship. The Prime Minister was blind to the Spanish reality of the day, ignored the plotters, and the coup was the beginning of the tragic Spanish Civil War.
One of the mocking eulogies the nationalists and fascists used when burying alive their enemies.
Ronald Lee Ermey was an American actor, and Marine drill instructor. He achieved fame for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Ermey was also a United States Marine Corps staff sergeant and an honorary gunnery sergeant.
