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Happened this weekend and it was a brutal massacre...not sure if us Beaufortonians are gonna make it...please send help and money, lots of money to Beaufort, SC (voted happiest coastal town in Coastal Magazine 2013).

But seriously, I live here and nothing happened. We hear gun shots every morning when the Marine recruits are practicing on the firing range at Parris Island, SC. Look it up. It sounds like a faint, distant popping of pop corn. It is actually very comforting to know that you have a bunch of highly trained AMERICANS living in the city.

Also, Jasper County and Ridgeland are about as unpopulated as you are going to find. If I owned a farm out in Jasper, I would gladly rent it out for a few days of a Marine unit going out and acting like they are going to blow something up. Hell, I would let them do it for free if they let me fire off a few rounds or blew up an old car I had out back.

The moral of this story is that there have been military towns all over the country for years, they train anywhere they can, and they are AMERICANS! There are more armed police men that you should worry about then young Marines about to be sent off on some peacekeeping mission in Zimbabwe. All we can do is prey that they all come back soon and support them while they are here.