Semper Fi

[unixronin]

(I swear the music was not front-loaded.  The true irony of this musical serendipity didn't become apparent until I previewed my first draft.)

Sailor Jim Johnston linked to this Snopes article about USMC Gunnery Sgt Michael Burghardt, nicknamed "Iron Mike" by his buddies.  Read the story, and you'll understand why they call him that.  I read it, and figured more people needed to see the photo (and to read the story, several months old though it may be).

Snopes.com, however, which got the photo from the Omaha World-Herald, doesn't want anyone else getting it from Snopes in turn -- accredited or otherwise.  So they put a monkeywrencher on it that replaces it, if YOU try to link it in turn from THEM, with a rude face, almost ... gee, almost like it was their copyrighted photo in the first place, and not something they copied from the Omaha World-Herald.

So, yeah, here's the Stars & Stripes article on Iron Mike.  And here's a NON-monkeywrenched copy of the photo.  To Gunny Michael "Iron Mike" Burghardt, a hearty "Semper Fi."  And to Snopes.com ... well, Iron Mike says it all, really.

Hey, Snopes guys?  Iron Mike looks a lot better with his ass hanging out in the breeze than you do.

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Further to that: I'm probably a little hair-triggered on the subject at present, after having recently gone looking for an image for another post, and finding that the first site I found it on, which had the article I was referring to, would neither allow it to be linked to, NOR downloaded -- either way, they substituted a GIF handslapping you for "stealing their copyrighted content" -- EVEN THOUGH IT WASN'T EVEN THEIR IMAGE IN THE FIRST PLACE.

So I went off and found another site with a similar write-up on the same subject and the same set of photos distributed by the same Very Large Company's PR department, and linked to their article instead.