About Our Guestbook

Brothers, families, friends and visitors to our 2/1 Guestbook.

Every once in awhile we post to this guest book some basic rules and updates on the appropriate use of this important communications resource. This month is one of those times.

To begin....I'm sure all know and can respect that we have no censorship or limitations on what can be posted to this book, other than good manners and a respect for all that post or may post, and with this in mind I would like to talk about some of the common sense, non-censoring regulations any "open to all readers posters" forums such as ours has.

First off, this is a Family guestbook - our2/1 brothers, their families, friends, children, grandchildren, and with some of our older 2/1 Marines, great-grandchildren, logging into the site, it is not good manners to use foul language, hate filled speels or engage in p****ing contest with other points of view that we do not agree with. If you have a problem with someones post, email that person directly, (they're email address is at the bottom center of every posted comment) please don't use this forum as a soap box to talk negative about another Marine or his/her point of view.

We are a small, yet tight family, and all of us come from different places and different views. Many of us that post here have some level of PTSD (whether we are willing to admit it or not) and on occassion our language can be coarse, but as Marines, we should not allow it to embarass or put a negative light on our Association or our Corps.

No, I am not trying to say that all have to conform to some ideal image of who we are and what we do, I'm asking that all remember that young children come to this site to learn about our service and our war and we it to them to be dignified in our discussions and to keep the venom of anger and salty language to a minimum. We have to remember that these pages will become a legacy of who we are and what we were and spiteful, accusational and otherwise in your face comments just doesn't seem to fit with our historic brotherhood.

With this in mind, I've asked our dedicated and hard working Webmaster Vinnie Burdzuik to create a method of informing visitors to the guestbook of these important protocols and and acknowledgement of their importance to our webiste.

The bottom line is that everyone is free to say what they want and vent all they wish with others that are posting to the guestbook. We only ask that good manners and respect for all readers be kept in perspective.

Thanks for you patience and ongoing support for our meager efforts to our continuing efforts to bring 2/1 brothers and families together.

Semper Fidelis

Paul Mangan, President

Vietnam Veterans Second Battalion First Marines