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Old 11-12-2015, 02:23 PM
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A retired U.S. Marine honored his father by surprising him with a new Corvette, straight off the National Corvette Museum's Boulevard.

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From the title in the post, I thought the Marines are paying a lot better now than when I was in the Marines (Viet Nam era), but I see it was a retired Marine.

Needless to say, I am sure Dad was happy. If I were dad, I would be thinking can my son afford to do this?
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The story is so cool! Loved reading it, what a happy moment.
Old 11-12-2015, 03:02 PM
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Wow! I can only imagine how Dad feels. I know I would be really taken by surprise. What a great son! BTW, thank you for your service!
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Great story!!
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Old 11-13-2015, 06:55 AM
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Good son!!!
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Great story! Very nice of the son to do this for his dad.
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Great Story....
Old 11-13-2015, 07:26 AM
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Wow.
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Tony is one awesome dude, we were over in Okinawa before we both retired, if you watched Fox's Celebrity boot camp he was one of the DIs and did one other boot camp show over in Europe.
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Love this Story!
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Semper Fi!!!!!
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Originally Posted by C2L72
Tony is one awesome dude, we were over in Okinawa before we both retired, if you watched Fox's Celebrity boot camp he was one of the DIs and did one other boot camp show over in Europe.
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Semper Fi!!!!!
Semper Fi to the other "Jarhead" clan members out there. Awesome thing for him to do for his dad. I've let my dad take mine for drives but he always tells me he'd get in too much trouble if he had full-time access to it.
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Cool story does not get much better than that.
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How cool is that!

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God bless!
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Awesome of the son to do that.
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What a great story. Thanks to Detroit Steel and NCM for sharing.


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